The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Pheasants, sentence 8

And when the Fox began his performance all over again, so dazed did they become, that they lost their hold on the limb, and fell down one by one to the Fox.

Who acts: Fox, heads · What happens: begin, daze, become, lose, fall down, perform · To what, where: performance, hold, limb, one

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, heads), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 began	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 began	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fox	det
4	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 performance	nmod:poss
7	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obj
8	all	all	ADV	_	10 again	advmod
9	over	over	ADV	_	10 again	advmod
10	again	again	ADV	_	5 began	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dazed	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 dazed	advmod
13	dazed	daze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 become	advcl
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 become	aux
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 become	nsubj
16	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lost	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 lost	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lost	nsubj
20	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 become	ccomp
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hold	nmod:poss
22	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lost	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 limb	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 limb	det
25	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lost	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fell	cc
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	parataxis
29	down	down	ADV	_	30 one	advmod
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 fell	obj
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 one	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 one	nmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 Fox	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Fox	det
35	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 one	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Fox	Fox's performance		again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent performance=Eventuality
2	daze	participle	heads = head not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	become	past · do-support	heads = head					tree rules
4	lose	past	heads = head	heads's hold	the limb			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Eventuality
5	fall down	past		one			by one to the Fox	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result
6	perform		Fox					nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	hold		heads = head					nom hold «act 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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