The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 3
What caught his attention this time and made him stop for a second look, was that the lucky Crow held a bit of cheese in her beak.
Who acts: Fox, lucky Crow · What happens: catch, make, stop, be, attend · To what, where: attention, Fox, beak
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, lucky 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 attention | nmod:poss |
| 4 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 look | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 look | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 look | amod |
| 14 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stop | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 held | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 held | cop |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 held | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Crow | det |
| 19 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Crow | amod |
| 20 | Crow | Crow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 held | nsubj |
| 21 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bit | det |
| 23 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 held | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 cheese | case |
| 25 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bit | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 beak | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 beak | nmod:poss |
| 28 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 held | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Fox's attention | time | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Fox | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stop | infinitive | Fox not said here | for a second look | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the lucky Crow | Crow's beak | hold property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | attend | Fox | nom attention «cognition 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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