Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 110
He was about to spring upon the Ass, when the Cock (to the sound of whose voice the Lion, it is said, has a singular aversion) crowed loudly, and the Lion fled away as fast as he could.
Who acts: Ass, Cock, Lion · What happens: be, spring, say, have, crow, flee away · To what, where: Ass, yard, singular aversion · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Cock, Lion), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 about | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 spring | mark |
| 5 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 about | xcomp |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 Ass | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ass | det |
| 8 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spring | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 has | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 has | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Cock | det |
| 12 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | nsubj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 sound | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 sound | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Cock | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 voice | nmod:poss |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sound | nmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Lion | det |
| 21 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 voice | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | aux:pass |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Lion | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cock | punct |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | parataxis |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 aversion | det |
| 29 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 aversion | amod |
| 30 | aversion | aversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | obj |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 about | punct |
| 32 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | advcl |
| 33 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 32 crowed | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fled | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fled | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Lion | det |
| 37 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 fled | nsubj |
| 38 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | parataxis |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 fled | advmod |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 fast | advmod |
| 41 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 fled | advmod |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 could | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 could | nsubj |
| 44 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 fast | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ass | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spring | to-infinitive | Ass not said here | the Ass | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ass=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present · passive | yard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | present | the Cock | a singular aversion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aversion=Patient | ||||
| 5 | crow | past | Ass not said here | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | flee away | past | the Lion | away, fast property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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