The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Pheasants, sentence 5
They hardly dared blink for fear of losing him out of their sight a single instant.
Who acts: Pheasants, fear · What happens: dare, lose, sight · To what, where: blink, Fox, sight
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 (Pheasants, fear), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dared | nsubj |
| 2 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 3 dared | advmod |
| 3 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | blink | blink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dared | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 fear | case |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dared | obl |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 losing | mark |
| 8 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 fear | acl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 losing | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sight | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 losing | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 instant | det |
| 15 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 instant | amod |
| 16 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 losing | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | past | Pheasants = pheasant | blink | for fear; hardly property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blink=Recipient | |||
| 2 | lose | gerund | fear not said here | Fox | Pheasants's sight | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sight | Pheasants = pheasant | nom sight «cognition 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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