The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 3

For a long time he kept away from the other Foxes, for he knew well enough that they would all make fun of him and crack jokes and laugh behind his back.

Who acts: Fox, they · What happens: keep away, know, make, crack, laugh · To what, where: fun, jokes, back

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, they), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 kept	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 Foxes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Foxes	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Foxes	amod
11	Foxes	Fox	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 knew	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	parataxis
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 knew	advmod
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 knew	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 make	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 make	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 make	aux
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 make	advmod
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 knew	advcl
23	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fun	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 crack	cc
27	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 make	conj
28	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 crack	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 laugh	cc
30	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 crack	conj
31	behind	behind	ADP	_	33 back	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 back	nmod:poss
33	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 laugh	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	past	Fox			time	from the other Foxes; away property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from fox=Eventuality
2	know	past	Fox				enough, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	would	they	fun of Fox			all property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
4	crack	infinitive	they not said here	jokes				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joke=Theme
5	laugh	present	they not said here		Fox's back			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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