The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Hedgehog, sentence 1
A Fox, swimming across a river, was barely able to reach the bank, where he lay bruised and exhausted from his struggle with the swift current.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: swim, be, reach, bruise, exhaust, struggle · To what, where: river, bank, Fox, struggle
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox), 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 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 able | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swimming | punct |
| 4 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Fox | acl |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swimming | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | cop |
| 10 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 11 able | advmod |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 reach | mark |
| 13 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bank | det |
| 15 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reach | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bruised | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 bruised | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bruised | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bruised | aux:pass |
| 20 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bank | acl:relcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 exhausted | cc |
| 22 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 bruised | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 struggle | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 struggle | nmod:poss |
| 25 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 exhausted | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 current | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 current | det |
| 28 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 current | amod |
| 29 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 struggle | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | gerund | a Fox not said here | a river | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across river=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a Fox | able, barely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | a Fox not said here | the bank | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bruise | past · passive | Fox | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | exhaust | participle | Fox's struggle with the swift current | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | struggle | Fox | with the swift current | nom struggle «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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