Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 94
The Farmer, beginning to be alarmed for his own safety, opened the gate and released the Lion.
Who acts: Farmer · What happens: begin, alarm, open, release · To what, where: gate, Lion
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 (Farmer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Farmer | det |
| 2 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beginning | punct |
| 4 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Farmer | conj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 alarmed | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 7 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 beginning | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 safety | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 safety | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 safety | amod |
| 11 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 alarmed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farmer | punct |
| 13 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gate | det |
| 15 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opened | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 released | cc |
| 17 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 opened | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Lion | det |
| 19 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 released | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | gerund | the Farmer not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | alarm | to-infinitive · passive | the Farmer not said here | for Farmer's own safety | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 3 | open | past | the Farmer | the gate | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | ||||
| 4 | release | past | the Farmer not said here | the Lion | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer lion=Source |
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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