The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 7
The Crow, her head cocked on one side, watched the Fox suspiciously.
Who acts: Crow · What happens: cock, watch · To what, where: head, one side, 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Crow | det |
| 2 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watched | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 head | punct |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Crow | appos |
| 6 | cocked | cock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 head | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 side | nummod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cocked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Crow | punct |
| 11 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fox | det |
| 13 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watched | obj |
| 14 | suspiciously | suspiciously | ADV | _ | 11 watched | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cock | participle | Crow's head not said here | one side | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | the Crow | the Fox | suspiciously property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme |
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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