Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 14
A HUNTER, not very bold, was searching for the tracks of a Lion.
Who acts: HUNTER · What happens: search
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 (HUNTER), 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 HUNTER | det |
| 2 | HUNTER | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 searching | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bold | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bold | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 bold | advmod |
| 6 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 HUNTER | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 HUNTER | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 searching | aux |
| 9 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 tracks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tracks | det |
| 12 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 searching | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Lion | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Lion | det |
| 15 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tracks | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 searching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past · progressive | a HUNTER | for the tracks of a Lion | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for track=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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