The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 14

He doubled on his tracks, he ran at top speed, he entered a dozen burrows,--but all in vain.

Who acts: Fox · What happens: double, run, enter · To what, where: tracks, top speed, dozen burrows

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 doubled	nsubj
2	doubled	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 tracks	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tracks	nmod:poss
5	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 doubled	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doubled	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 speed	case
10	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 speed	amod
11	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 entered	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 entered	nsubj
14	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doubled	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dozen	det
16	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 burrows	nummod
17	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 entered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 entered	punct
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 vain	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 vain	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 vain	nsubj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 vain	case
23	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 doubled	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 doubled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	double	past	Fox		Fox's tracks	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	run	past	Fox		top speed	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory
3	enter	past	Fox	dozen burrows		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme burrow=Destination

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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