Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 66

He returned to his den, and lying down there, pretended to be sick, taking care that his sickness should be publicly known.

Who acts: Lion · What happens: return, lie down, pretend, be, take, know · To what, where: care, sickness

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 den	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 den	nmod:poss
5	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returned	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pretended	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pretended	cc
8	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 pretended	advcl
9	down	down	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lying	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lying	punct
12	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 returned	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 sick	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 sick	cop
15	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pretended	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taking	punct
17	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 pretended	advcl
18	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taking	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 known	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sickness	nmod:poss
21	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 known	nsubj:pass
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 known	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 known	aux:pass
24	publicly	publicly	ADV	_	25 known	advmod
25	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 taking	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	Lion			to Lion's den result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to den=Result
2	lie down	gerund			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pretend	past	Lion not said here				tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	Lion not said here			sick property	tree rules
5	take	gerund	Lion not said here	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	know	should · passive		Lion's sickness		publicly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

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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