The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 12
"Master Fox, kindly turn around for a moment, and you shall have your answer."
Who acts: Master Fox, you, your · What happens: turn around, have, answer · To what, where: answer
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 (Master Fox, you, your), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 turn | punct |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | compound |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 turn | punct |
| 5 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 6 turn | advmod |
| 6 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | around | around | ADV | _ | 6 turn | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 moment | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turn | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 turn | conj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 answer | nmod:poss |
| 17 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turn | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn around in a quote | infinitive | Master Fox | moment | around, kindly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | shall | you | your answer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient | ||||
| 3 | answer in a quote | your | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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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