The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion and the Fox, sentence 7
But Master Fox very wisely stayed outside, thanking the Lion very kindly for the invitation.
What happens: fox, stay, thank · To what, where: Lion
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 Fox | cc |
| 2 | Master | master | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 Fox | aux |
| 3 | Fox | fox | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 stayed | advmod |
| 5 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 6 stayed | advmod |
| 6 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Fox | advcl |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 6 stayed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thanking | punct |
| 9 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stayed | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lion | det |
| 11 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thanking | obj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 kindly | advmod |
| 13 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 9 thanking | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 invitation | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 invitation | det |
| 16 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thanking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fox | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||||
| 2 | stay | participle | outside, wisely property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | gerund | the Lion | for the invitation; kindly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent lion=Theme for invitation=Attribute |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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