The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Pheasants, sentence 6

Now the Fox made as if to climb a tree, now he fell over and lay still, playing dead, and the next instant he was hopping on all fours, his back in the air, and his bushy tail shaking so that it seemed to throw out silver sparks in the moonlight.

Who acts: Fox, next instant, bushy tail, it · What happens: make, climb, fall over, lay, play, hop · To what, where: tree, back, fours, silver sparks, moonlight

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, next instant, bushy tail, it), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fox	det
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 climb	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 climb	mark
7	to	to	PART	_	8 climb	mark
8	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 climb	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 fell	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
15	over	over	ADV	_	14 fell	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lay	cc
17	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fell	conj
18	still	still	ADV	_	17 lay	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 playing	punct
20	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lay	advcl
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 playing	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hopping	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hopping	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 instant	det
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 instant	amod
26	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hopping	nsubj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hopping	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hopping	aux
29	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fell	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 fours	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 fours	det
32	fours	four	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hopping	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 back	punct
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 back	nmod:poss
35	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hopping	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 air	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 air	det
38	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 back	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 shaking	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 shaking	cc
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 tail	nmod:poss
42	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 tail	amod
43	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 shaking	nsubj
44	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fell	advcl
45	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	48 seemed	mark
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 so	fixed
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 seemed	nsubj
48	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 shaking	ccomp
49	to	to	PART	_	50 throw	mark
50	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 seemed	xcomp
51	out	out	ADP	_	50 throw	compound:prt
52	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sparks	compound
53	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 throw	obj
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 moonlight	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 moonlight	det
56	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 throw	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle	the Fox			now		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	climb	to-infinitive	the Fox not said here	a tree				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	fall over	past	Fox			now	over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lay	infinitive	Fox not said here			still		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	play	gerund	Fox not said here				dead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hop	past · progressive	the next instant	Fox's back in the air	all fours			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on four=Trajectory
7	shake	gerund	Fox's bushy tail					tree rules
8	seem	past	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
9	throw out	to-infinitive		silver sparks	the moonlight			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spark=Theme in moonlight=Destination

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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