The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 7
This one had been caught by hounds when his tail had become entangled in the hedge.
Who acts: hounds, tail · What happens: catch, become, entangle · To what, where: one
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 (hounds, tail), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 caught | aux:pass |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 hounds | case |
| 7 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caught | obl |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 become | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tail | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 become | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 become | aux |
| 12 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 caught | advcl |
| 13 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 become | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hedge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hedge | det |
| 16 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entangled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | hounds | this one | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | Fox's tail | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | entangle | participle | Fox's tail not said here | in the hedge | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hedge=Theme |
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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