The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 8
Just then, close by, they heard a hunter's horn and the yelping of a pack of hounds.
Who acts: tricks, pack · What happens: hear, yelp · To what, where: horn
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 (tricks, pack), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 close | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 close | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 close | punct |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 heard | mark |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 by | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 close | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hunter | det |
| 10 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horn | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 hunter | case |
| 12 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 yelping | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 yelping | det |
| 15 | yelping | yelping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horn | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pack | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pack | det |
| 18 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 yelping | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hounds | case |
| 20 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pack | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | tricks = trick | a hunter's horn and the yelping of a pack of hounds | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer horn=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | yelp | a pack of hounds | nom yelping «event intransitive»: of=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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