The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 1

One bright morning as the Fox was following his sharp nose through the wood in search of a bite to eat, he saw a Crow on the limb of a tree overhead.

Who acts: Fox · What happens: follow, eat, see, search · To what, where: sharp nose, wood, Crow, limb, bite

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crow. 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.

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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 morning	nummod
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obl:unmarked
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 following	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fox	det
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 following	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 following	aux
8	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 morning	acl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nose	nmod:poss
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nose	amod
11	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 following	obj
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 wood	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 following	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 search	case
16	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wood	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 bite	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bite	det
19	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 search	nmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 bite	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Crow	det
26	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 limb	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 limb	det
29	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 overhead	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 overhead	det
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 overhead	compound
33	overhead	overhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 limb	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	follow	past · progressive	the Fox	Fox's sharp nose	the wood in search of a bite		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nose=Theme through wood=Trajectory
2	eat	to-infinitive	the Fox not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	Fox	a Crow	the limb of a tree overhead	morning	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crow=Stimulus
4	search			a bite			nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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