The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 13

He dodged here and there with the hounds at his heels.

Who acts: Fox · What happens: dodge · To what, where: heels

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dodged	nsubj
2	dodged	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 dodged	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 there	cc
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 here	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hounds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hounds	det
8	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dodged	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 heels	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 heels	nmod:poss
11	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dodged	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dodged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dodge	past	Fox			Fox's heels; here		with the hounds	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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