Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 112
He had run no long distance, when the Lion, turning about, seized him and tore him to pieces.
Who acts: Ass, Lion · What happens: run, turn about, seize, tore · To what, where: long distance, Ass
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, 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 run | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 distance | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 distance | amod |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 run | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turning | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 turning | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 10 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 turning | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turning | punct |
| 12 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 distance | acl |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 turning | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seized | punct |
| 15 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seized | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tore | cc |
| 18 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seized | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tore | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 pieces | case |
| 21 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tore | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · perfect | Ass | no long distance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | turn about | gerund | the Lion | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | Ass | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tore | past | Ass | to pieces | tree rules |
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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