Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 115

But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest.

Who acts: toothless clawless Lion, Lion · What happens: return, repeat, drive away, request · To what, where: request, Lion, forest

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toothless clawless Lion, Lion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 returned	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 returned	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Lion	det
4	toothless	toothless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Lion	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 toothless	punct
6	clawless	clawless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Lion	amod
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 returned	nsubj
8	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 repeat	mark
10	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 returned	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 request	nmod:poss
12	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 repeat	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Woodman	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Woodman	det
15	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 repeat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 afraid	punct
17	no	no	ADV	_	18 longer	advmod
18	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 afraid	advmod
19	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 repeat	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 set	punct
21	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 afraid	conj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 set	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 club	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 club	nmod:poss
26	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drove	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 drove	cc
29	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 returned	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 drove	obj
31	away	away	ADV	_	29 drove	advmod
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 forest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 forest	det
34	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drove	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	the toothless clawless Lion				tree rules
2	repeat	to-infinitive	the toothless clawless Lion not said here	Lion's request		the Woodman obl	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
3	drive away	past	the toothless clawless Lion not said here	Lion	the forest	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme into forest=Trajectory
4	request		Lion				nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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