The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 11
When he had finished talking, an old Fox arose, and said, smiling:
Who acts: Fox, old Fox · What happens: finish, talk, arise, say, smile · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Fox, old 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 finished | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arose | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Fox | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Fox | amod |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arose | nsubj |
| 10 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 arose | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smiling | punct |
| 15 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | Fox | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | Fox not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | arise | past | a old Fox | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a old Fox not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | smile | gerund | a old Fox not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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