Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 84
A SICK STAG lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground.
Who acts: SICK STAG · What happens: lie down · To what, where: quiet corner
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 (SICK STAG), 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 | 3 STAG | det |
| 2 | SICK | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 STAG | amod |
| 3 | STAG | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 corner | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 corner | det |
| 8 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 corner | amod |
| 9 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ground | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ground | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 pasture | punct |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 corner | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | a SICK STAG | a quiet corner of Stag's pasture ground | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
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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