Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 78
A FOX, running before the hounds, came across a Woodcutter felling an oak and begged him to show him a safe hiding-place.
Who acts: FOX, Woodcutter · What happens: run, come, fell, beg, show · To what, where: Woodcutter, oak, Hound, safe hiding place
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 (FOX, Woodcutter), 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 | 2 FOX | det |
| 2 | FOX | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 running | punct |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 FOX | acl |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 hounds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hounds | det |
| 7 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 running | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 FOX | punct |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 Woodcutter | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Woodcutter | det |
| 12 | Woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | felling | fell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 Woodcutter | acl |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 oak | det |
| 15 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felling | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 begged | cc |
| 17 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 begged | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 show | mark |
| 20 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 begged | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 show | iobj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 23 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 place | amod |
| 24 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 place | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 hiding | punct |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 show | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | a FOX not said here | before the hounds | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before hound=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a FOX | a Woodcutter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across woodcutter=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fell | gerund | a Woodcutter not said here | a oak | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | a FOX not said here | Hound | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | show | to-infinitive | a FOX not said here | a safe hiding place | Hound | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Topic |
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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