Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 68

After many of the beasts had thus disappeared, the Fox discovered the trick and presenting himself to the Lion, stood on the outside of the cave, at a respectful distance, and asked him how he was.

Who acts: many, Fox, Lion · What happens: disappear, discover, present, stand, ask, be · To what, where: trick, Fox, Lion, outside

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 (many, Fox, 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	8 disappeared	mark
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 disappeared	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 beasts	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beasts	det
5	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 many	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 disappeared	aux
7	thus	thus	ADV	_	8 disappeared	advmod
8	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 discovered	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 disappeared	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Fox	det
11	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 discovered	nsubj
12	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trick	det
14	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 discovered	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 presenting	cc
16	presenting	present	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 trick	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 presenting	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 Lion	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Lion	det
20	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 presenting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 discovered	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 outside	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 outside	det
25	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 cave	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cave	det
28	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 outside	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 distance	punct
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 distance	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 distance	det
32	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 distance	amod
33	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 asked	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 asked	cc
36	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 discovered	parataxis
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 asked	iobj
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 was	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 was	nsubj
40	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 asked	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	disappear	past · perfect	many of the beasts				thus property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	discover	past	the Fox	the trick				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic
3	present	gerund	the Fox not said here	Fox	the Lion			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to lion=Recipient
4	stand	past	the Fox not said here			the outside of the cave	at a respectful distance	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on outside=Location
5	ask speech: ask	past			Lion			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	be	past	Lion					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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