The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 15
The hounds caught him, and soon put an end to the boaster and all his tricks.
Who acts: hounds, Fox · What happens: catch, put, trick · To what, where: Fox, end
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 (hounds, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hounds | det |
| 2 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 put | advmod |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 caught | advcl |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 boaster | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boaster | det |
| 13 | boaster | boaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tricks | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 tricks | det:predet |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tricks | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 boaster | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the hounds | Fox | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the hounds not said here | a end | to the boaster and Fox's tricks; soon property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | |||
| 3 | trick | Fox | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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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