The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 16
So she opened her beak wide to utter her loudest caw, and down fell the cheese straight into the Fox's open mouth.
Who acts: Crow · What happens: open, utter, fall, caw · To what, where: beak, loudest caw, cheese, open mouth
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beak | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 utter | mark |
| 8 | utter | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 opened | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 caw | nmod:poss |
| 10 | loudest | loud | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 caw | amod |
| 11 | caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 utter | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 fell | advmod |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cheese | det |
| 17 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obj |
| 18 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 24 mouth | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 mouth | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Fox | det |
| 21 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Fox | case |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mouth | amod |
| 24 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Crow | Crow's beak | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beak=Theme | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | to-infinitive | Crow not said here | Crow's loudest caw | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent caw=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | Crow not said here | the cheese | the Fox's open mouth | down property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cheese=Result | ||
| 4 | caw | Crow | nom caw «event intransitive»: 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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