The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 14
Listening to these flattering words, the Crow forgot all her suspicion, and also her breakfast.
Who acts: Crow · What happens: listen, flatter, forget, suspect · To what, where: suspicion
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 (Crow), 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 | Listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 forgot | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 4 | flattering | flatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Listening | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listening | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Crow | det |
| 8 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forgot | nsubj |
| 9 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 suspicion | advmod |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 suspicion | nmod:poss |
| 12 | suspicion | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forgot | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 breakfast | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 breakfast | cc |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 breakfast | advmod |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 17 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forgot | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | gerund | the Crow not said here | to this flattering words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flatter | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | forget | past | the Crow | Crow's suspicion | Crow's breakfast obl | tree rules | |||
| 4 | suspect | Crow | nom suspicion «cognition 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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