The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 5

Here is a dainty bite for my breakfast."

Who acts: dainty bite · What happens: be

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 (dainty bite), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bite	det
4	dainty	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bite	amod
5	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 breakfast	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 breakfast	nmod:poss
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bite	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a dainty bite for my breakfast					here property	tree rules

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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