Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 114
A LION and a Bear seized a Kid at the same moment, and fought fiercely for its possession.
Who acts: LION, Bear · What happens: seize, fight, possess · To what, where: Kid
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LION, Bear), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Bear | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Bear | det |
| 5 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 LION | conj |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Kid | det |
| 8 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 moment | amod |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fought | cc |
| 15 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | conj |
| 16 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 15 fought | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 possession | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 possession | nmod:poss |
| 19 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fought | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | a LION and a Bear | a Kid | moment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme | |||
| 2 | fight | past | a LION and a Bear not said here | for Bear's possession; fiercely property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | possess | Bear | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=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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