Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 3

The Lion concealed himself on seeing her approach, but when she was safe within the cave, sprang upon her and tore her to pieces.

Who acts: Lion, she, her · What happens: conceal, see, be, spring, tore, approach · To what, where: Lion, approach, her

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, she, her), 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	3 concealed	nsubj
3	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 concealed	obj
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 seeing	mark
6	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 concealed	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 approach	nmod:poss
8	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seeing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sprang	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 sprang	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 safe	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 safe	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 safe	cop
14	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sprang	advcl
15	within	within	ADP	_	17 cave	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cave	det
17	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 safe	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 safe	punct
19	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 concealed	parataxis
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sprang	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tore	cc
23	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sprang	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tore	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 pieces	case
26	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tore	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 concealed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	conceal	past	the Lion	Lion		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	see	gerund	the Lion not said here	her approach		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer approach=Stimulus
3	is	past	she		within the cave; safe property	tree rules
4	spring	past			upon her = she	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Trajectory
5	tore	past		her = she	to pieces	tree rules
6	approach		her = she			nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=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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