Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 58
A WILD ASS and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease.
Who acts: WILD ASS, Children · What happens: enter, capture · To what, where: alliance, beasts
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 (WILD ASS, Children), 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 | 3 ASS | det |
| 2 | WILD | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ASS | amod |
| 3 | ASS | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Lion | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Lion | det |
| 6 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ASS | conj |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 alliance | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 alliance | det |
| 10 | alliance | alliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | obl |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 capture | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 capture | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 capture | aux |
| 15 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 entered | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beasts | det |
| 17 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 capture | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beasts | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 ease | case |
| 22 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 ease | amod |
| 23 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forest | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | a WILD ASS and a Lion | a alliance | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into alliance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | capture | might | Children = child | the beasts of the forest with greater ease | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=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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