The Aesop for Children, The Quack Toad, sentence 3
The Fox heard the news and hurried to see the Toad.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: hear, hurry, see · To what, where: news, Toad
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Quack Toad. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 news | det |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hurried | cc |
| 7 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hurried | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Toad | det |
| 11 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Fox | the news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hurry | past | the Fox not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the Fox not said here | the Toad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toad=Stimulus |
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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