Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 93
When the Lion found that he could not escape, he flew upon the sheep and killed them, and then attacked the oxen.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: find, not escape, fly, kill, attack · To what, where: sheep, oxen · 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 (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 found | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lion | det |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flew | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 escape | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 escape | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 escape | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 escape | advmod |
| 9 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 found | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 sheep | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sheep | det |
| 15 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flew | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 killed | cc |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flew | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 killed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 attacked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 attacked | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 attacked | advmod |
| 22 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flew | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 oxen | det |
| 24 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 attacked | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Lion | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not escape | could | Lion | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | Lion | upon the sheep | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent upon sheep=Location | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | Lion not said here | sheep | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | attack | past | Lion not said here | the oxen | then | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient |
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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