The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 12

But the Fox had so many plans for escape he could not decide which one to try first.

Who acts: Fox · What happens: have, not decide, try · To what, where: many plans, one

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 (Fox), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fox	det
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plans	amod
7	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 escape	case
9	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plans	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 decide	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 decide	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 decide	advmod
13	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	parataxis
14	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 decide	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 try	mark
17	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 decide	xcomp
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 try	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Fox	many plans	for escape	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
2	not decide	could	Fox	which one		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent clause=Topic
3	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fox not said here		first property	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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