The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 6

Up he trotted to the foot of the tree in which the Crow was sitting, and looking up admiringly, he cried, "Good-morning, beautiful creature!"

Who acts: need, Crow · What happens: trot, sit, look up, cry · To what, where: foot, tree, beautiful creature

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 (need, 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	Up	up	ADV	_	3 trotted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trotted	nsubj
3	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 foot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 foot	det
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trotted	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sitting	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Crow	det
13	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sitting	aux
15	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tree	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looking	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looking	cc
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 trotted	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 looking	compound:prt
20	admiringly	admiringly	ADV	_	18 looking	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cried	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cried	nsubj
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 trotted	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 morning	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 morning	punct
26	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 morning	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Good	punct
28	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cried	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 creature	punct
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 creature	amod
31	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cried	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 creature	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 creature	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trot	past	need		the foot of the tree			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination
2	sit	past · progressive	the Crow		the tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
3	look up	gerund	need not said here				admiringly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	cry speech: express	past	need	beautiful creature		morning		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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