The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Pheasants, sentence 2

The sly Fox soon found a bright patch of moonlight, where the Pheasants could see him clearly; there he raised himself up on his hind legs, and began a wild dance.

Who acts: sly Fox, Pheasants, Fox · What happens: find, see, raise up, begin · To what, where: bright patch, Fox, hind legs, wild dance

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 (sly Fox, Pheasants, 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	3 Fox	det
2	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Fox	amod
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 patch	det
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 patch	amod
8	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 moonlight	case
10	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 patch	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 see	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Pheasants	det
14	Pheasants	Pheasant	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 see	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 found	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 see	obj
18	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	16 see	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 raised	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 raised	expl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 raised	nsubj
22	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 raised	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 raised	compound:prt
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 legs	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 legs	nmod:poss
27	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 legs	amod
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 raised	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 began	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 began	cc
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 dance	det
33	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dance	amod
34	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 began	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	the sly Fox	a bright patch of moonlight		soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Topic
2	see	could	the Pheasants	Fox		clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	raise up	past	Fox	Fox	Fox's hind legs; there		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on leg=Destination
4	begin	past	the sly Fox not said here	a wild dance			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality

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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