The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 9

Besides, it was well known, he said, that men hunt Foxes simply for their tails, which they cut off as prizes of the hunt.

Who acts: Fox, men · What happens: know, say, hunt, cut off · To what, where: tail, Foxes, tails · 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, men), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	6 known	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 known	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 known	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 known	advmod
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 known	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hunt	punct
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 men	det
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hunt	nsubj
13	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hunt	obj
15	simply	simply	ADV	_	13 hunt	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 tails	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tails	nmod:poss
18	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hunt	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cut	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 cut	obj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cut	nsubj
22	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tails	acl:relcl
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 cut	compound:prt
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 prizes	case
25	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cut	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 hunt	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hunt	det
28	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 prizes	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past · passive		tail	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Fox			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hunt	present	that men	Foxes	for men's tails; simply property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent fox=Location for tail=Theme
4	cut off	past	men = man	men's tails	as prizes of the hunt	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector which=Eventuality

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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