The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 6

When they were all gathered together, the Fox Without a Tail got up and made a long speech about those Foxes who had come to harm because of their tails.

Who acts: Tail, Foxes · What happens: gather, get up, make, come, harm · To what, where: jokes, long speech

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 (Tail, Foxes), 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	5 gathered	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gathered	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gathered	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 gathered	advmod
5	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 gathered	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Fox	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fox	det
9	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gathered	obl
10	Without	without	SCONJ	_	13 got	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Tail	det
12	Tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gathered	advcl
14	up	up	ADV	_	13 got	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 made	cc
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 got	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 speech	det
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 speech	amod
19	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obj
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 Foxes	case
21	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 Foxes	det
22	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 speech	nmod
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 come	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 Foxes	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 harm	mark
27	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	xcomp
28	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	31 tails	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 because	fixed
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tails	nmod:poss
31	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 harm	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gather	past · passive		jokes = joke	the Fox obl; all, together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	get up	past	a Tail			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	past	a Tail not said here	a long speech	about that Foxes	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product
4	come	past · perfect	that Foxes			tree rules
5	harm	to-infinitive	that Foxes not said here		because jokes's tails	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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