The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 17
"Thank you," said Master Fox sweetly, as he walked off. "
Who acts: Master · What happens: thank, say, fox, walk off · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Master), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 2 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Thank | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Thank | conj |
| 7 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fox | nsubj |
| 8 | Fox | fox | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | xcomp |
| 9 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 8 Fox | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walked | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 walked | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 walked | nsubj |
| 13 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 walked | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | fox | infinitive | Master | sweetly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | walk off | past | Master | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=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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