Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 137
He was just in the act of seizing her, when a fine young Hart trotted by, and he left the Hare to follow him.
Who acts: Lion, act · What happens: be, seize, trot, leave, follow · To what, where: act, Hare, fine young Hart, Lion
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, act), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 act | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 act | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 act | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 act | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 act | det |
| 6 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 seizing | mark |
| 8 | seizing | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 act | acl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seizing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trotted | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 trotted | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Hart | det |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Hart | amod |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Hart | amod |
| 15 | Hart | Hart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 trotted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | trotted | trot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 act | parataxis |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 trotted | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | nsubj |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 trotted | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Hare | det |
| 23 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 follow | mark |
| 25 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 left | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 follow | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 act | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Lion | the act | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seize | gerund | the act not said here | Hare | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trot | participle · passive | a fine young Hart | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | Lion | the Hare | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme | ||||
| 5 | follow | to-infinitive | Lion not said here | Lion | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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