The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Pheasants, sentence 3
First he whirled 'round and 'round like a top, then he hopped up and down, cutting all sorts of strange capers.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: whirl, hop up, cut, sort · To what, where: sorts, strange capers
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 (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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 whirled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 whirled | nsubj |
| 3 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 round | punct |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 whirled | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 round | cc |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 round | punct |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 round | conj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whirled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hopped | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 hopped | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hopped | nsubj |
| 15 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 whirled | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 hopped | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 down | cc |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 up | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cutting | punct |
| 20 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 hopped | advcl |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 sorts | det |
| 22 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cutting | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 capers | case |
| 24 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 capers | amod |
| 25 | capers | caper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sorts | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whirled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whirl | past | Fox | like a top; first, round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hop up | past | Fox | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut | gerund | Fox not said here | all sorts of strange capers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sort=Product | ||||
| 4 | sort | strange capers | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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