The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Pheasants, sentence 1

One moonlight evening as Master Fox was taking his usual stroll in the woods, he saw a number of Pheasants perched quite out of his reach on a limb of a tall old tree.

Who acts: Master, number · What happens: take, see, perch, stroll · To what, where: usual stroll, woods, reach · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Pheasants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, number), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 evening	nummod
2	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evening	compound
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obl:unmarked
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 taking	mark
5	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 taking	nsubj
6	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Master	flat
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taking	aux
8	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 evening	acl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 stroll	nmod:poss
10	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stroll	amod
11	stroll	stroll	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 woods	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woods	det
14	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 number	det
19	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 perched	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Pheasants	case
21	Pheasants	pheasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 number	nmod
22	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saw	ccomp
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 perched	advmod
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 reach	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 reach	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 reach	nmod:poss
27	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 perched	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 limb	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 limb	det
30	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reach	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 tree	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 tree	det
33	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tree	amod
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tree	amod
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 limb	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past · progressive	Master	Master's usual stroll	the woods		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stroll=Value in wood=Location
2	see	past	Master			evening	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	perch	past	a number of Pheasants		number's reach on a limb of a tall old tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out reach=Location
4	stroll		Master				nom stroll «act intransitive»: 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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