Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 139
The Lion was unable after a long chase to catch the Hart, and returned to feed upon the Hare.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: be, catch, return, feed · To what, where: Hart
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), 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 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 unable | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unable | cop |
| 4 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 chase | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chase | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chase | amod |
| 8 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unable | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 catch | mark |
| 10 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 chase | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hart | det |
| 12 | Hart | Hart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 catch | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 returned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 returned | cc |
| 15 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unable | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 feed | mark |
| 17 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 returned | advcl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 Hare | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Hare | det |
| 20 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 feed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Lion | after a long chase | unable property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | the Hart | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the Lion not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feed | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | upon the Hare | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=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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