The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 8

But she kept her beak tightly closed on the cheese and did not return his greeting.

Who acts: Crow, need · What happens: keep, close, not return, greet · To what, where: beak, cheese, greeting

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, need), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 kept	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 beak	nmod:poss
5	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
6	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	7 closed	advmod
7	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 kept	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 cheese	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cheese	det
10	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 closed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 return	cc
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 return	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 return	advmod
14	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kept	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 greeting	nmod:poss
16	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 return	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Crow	Crow's beak			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Theme
2	close	participle	Crow not said here		the cheese	tightly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not return	past · do-support	Crow not said here	need's greeting			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme
4	greet		need				nom greeting «communication transitive»: 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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