Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 109
AN ASS and a Cock were in a straw-yard together when a Lion, desperate from hunger, approached the spot.
Who acts: ASS, straw yard · What happens: be, approach · To what, where: spot
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ASS, straw yard), 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 | AN | and | CCONJ | Typo=Yes | 11 yard | cc |
| 2 | ASS | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yard | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Cock | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Cock | det |
| 5 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ASS | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 yard | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 yard | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 yard | det |
| 9 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yard | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 straw | punct |
| 11 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 approached | nsubj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 desperate | advmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 desperate | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Lion | det |
| 15 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 desperate | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 desperate | punct |
| 17 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 yard | advcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 hunger | case |
| 19 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 desperate | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 yard | punct |
| 21 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spot | det |
| 23 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 approached | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ASS and a Cock | in a straw yard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | approach | past | a straw yard | the spot | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=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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