The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 1
Once a Cat and a Fox were traveling together.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: travel
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 Cat | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Cat | det |
| 3 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 traveling | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Fox | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Fox | det |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Cat | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 traveling | aux |
| 8 | traveling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 traveling | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 traveling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past · progressive | a Cat and a Fox | together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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