The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Monkey, sentence 7
As soon as he saw the meat he grasped eagerly for it, only to find himself held fast in the trap.
Who acts: Monkey, meat · What happens: see, grasp, find, hold · To what, where: Monkey, trap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Monkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkey, meat), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meat | det |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grasped | nsubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grasped | nsubj |
| 9 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 9 grasped | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grasped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 find | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 grasped | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 find | xcomp |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 held | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 trap | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trap | det |
| 22 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 held | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Monkey | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | grasp | past | the meat | for trap; eagerly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | the meat not said here | Monkey | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | participle | Monkey not said here | the trap | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trap=Location |
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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