The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 1
A Fox that had been caught in a trap, succeeded at last, after much painful tugging, in getting away.
What happens: catch, succeed, get away · To what, where: Fox, trap, last
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox Without a Tail. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 succeeded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 caught | aux:pass |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Fox | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 trap | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 trap | det |
| 9 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 succeeded | punct |
| 11 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 succeeded | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tugging | punct |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 tugging | case |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tugging | amod |
| 17 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tugging | amod |
| 18 | tugging | tugging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 succeeded | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 getting | punct |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 getting | mark |
| 21 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 succeeded | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 getting | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | a Fox | a trap | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | succeed | participle · passive | a Fox | last | after much painful tugging | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get away | gerund | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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