The Aesop for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise, sentence 6
So the Fox, who had consented to act as judge, marked the distance and started the runners off.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: consent, act, mark, start off · To what, where: distance, runners
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise. 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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:1021): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 13 marked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fox | det |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marked | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 consented | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 consented | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 consented | aux |
| 7 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 Fox | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 act | mark |
| 9 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 consented | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 judge | case |
| 11 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 act | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 consented | punct |
| 13 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 distance | det |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marked | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 started | cc |
| 17 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 marked | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 runners | det |
| 19 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 started | obj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 started | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past · perfect | the Fox | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | act | to-infinitive | the Fox not said here | as judge | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as judge=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | mark | past | the Fox | the distance | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent distance=Destination | ||||
| 4 | start off | past | the Fox not said here | the runners | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Eventuality |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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