Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 9
A LION, fatigued by the heat of a summer’s day, fell fast asleep in his den.
Who acts: LION, day · What happens: fatigue, fall, heat · To what, where: LION, den
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 (LION, day), 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 LION | det |
| 2 | LION | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fatigued | punct |
| 4 | fatigued | fatigue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 LION | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 heat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heat | det |
| 7 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fatigued | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 summer | det |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 day | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 summer | case |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heat | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 LION | punct |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 fell | advmod |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fell | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 den | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 den | nmod:poss |
| 19 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fatigue | participle | a LION not said here | by the heat of a summer's day | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | a LION | Fox's den | asleep, fast property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in den=Location | |||
| 3 | heat | a summer's day | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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