Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 98
A Lion met him in the path, and seizing the lamb, took it from him.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: meet, seize, take · To what, where: lamb, path
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 path | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 path | det |
| 7 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 10 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 took | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lamb | det |
| 12 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seizing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seizing | punct |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | a Lion | lamb | the path | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | seize | gerund | the lamb | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | a Lion not said here | path | from Lion | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from he=Initial_Location |
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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