Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 136

A LION came across a Hare, who was fast asleep.

Who acts: LION, Hare · What happens: come, be

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, Hare), 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	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 Hare	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Hare	det
6	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asleep	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 asleep	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asleep	cop
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 asleep	advmod
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Hare	acl:relcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a LION					across a Hare	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across hare=Initial_Location
2	is	past	a Hare					asleep, fast property	tree rules

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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