The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 10
"This is my trick," he called to the Fox. "
Who acts: This, talk · What happens: be, call · To what, where: trick, Fox · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, talk), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 trick | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 trick | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 trick | nmod:poss |
| 5 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Fox | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fox | det |
| 12 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trick | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 trick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | my trick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | past | talk | the Fox | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to fox=Recipient |
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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