Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 48
When the Ass saw that the huge beast could be assailed with impunity, he let drive at his forehead with his heels.
Who acts: Ass, Lion · What happens: see, assail, let, drive · To what, where: huge beast, forehead · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ass | det |
| 3 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 let | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 assailed | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beast | det |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beast | amod |
| 8 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 assailed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 assailed | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 assailed | aux:pass |
| 11 | assailed | assail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 impunity | case |
| 13 | impunity | impunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 assailed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | nsubj |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 forehead | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 20 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drive | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 heels | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heels | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 drive | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Ass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | assail | could · passive | the huge beast | with impunity | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | let | past | Lion | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | drive | infinitive | Lion not said here | Lion's forehead | with Lion's heels | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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