The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 4
"No need to search any farther," thought sly Master Fox. "
What happens: search, think · 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: 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 | _ | 3 need | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 need | det |
| 3 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 search | mark |
| 5 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 need | acl |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 farther | det |
| 7 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 search | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | sly | sly | ADV | _ | 13 Fox | advmod |
| 12 | Master | mast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 Fox | amod |
| 13 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Fox | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search in a quote | to-infinitive | far property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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