The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 2
This was by no means the first Crow the Fox had ever seen.
Who acts: This, first Crow · What happens: be, see · To what, where: Fox
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 (This, first 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 means | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | cop |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 no | case |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 means | obl |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Crow | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 Crow | amod |
| 8 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fox | det |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 seen | advmod |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Crow | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | by no; mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect · passive | the first Crow not said here | the Fox | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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