Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 127
A WOLF, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair.
What happens: bite, lay, maim · To what, where: lair
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 WOLF | det |
| 2 | WOLF | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wounded | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wounded | punct |
| 4 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 5 wounded | advmod |
| 5 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bitten | cc |
| 7 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wounded | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 dogs | case |
| 9 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bitten | obl:agent |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
| 11 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wounded | parataxis |
| 12 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lay | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 maimed | cc |
| 14 | maimed | maim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sick | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 lair | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lair | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 maimed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | participle | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lay | present | sick property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | maim | participle | Wolf's lair | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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