Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 2
A DOE hard pressed by hunters sought refuge in a cave belonging to a Lion.
Who acts: DOE, cave · What happens: press, seek, belong · To what, where: DOE, refuge, cave
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 (DOE, cave), 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 DOE | det |
| 2 | DOE | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sought | nsubj |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 DOE | advmod |
| 4 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 DOE | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 hunters | case |
| 6 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pressed | obl |
| 7 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sought | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cave | det |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sought | obl |
| 12 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 cave | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Lion | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Lion | det |
| 15 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 belonging | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | participle | a DOE not said here | by hunters | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | a DOE | refuge | a cave | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme in cave=Location | |||
| 3 | belong | gerund | a cave not said here | to a Lion | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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