Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 12
A Fox seeing him said: “A fine Lion you are, to be frightened of a Mouse.”
Who acts: Fox · What happens: see, say, frighten · To what, where: Fox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Fox | acl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seeing | obj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lion | punct |
| 8 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Lion | amod |
| 10 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 are | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Lion | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 frightened | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 frightened | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 frightened | aux:pass |
| 16 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Lion | acl:relcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Mouse | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Mouse | det |
| 19 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 frightened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lion | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | a Fox not said here | Fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | frighten in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | a Fox not said here | of a Mouse | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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