The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 9
"What a charming creature she is!" said the Fox. "
Who acts: creature, Fox · What happens: charm, creature, be, say · To what, where: charming creature · 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: who acts (creature, Fox), 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 | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 creature | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 4 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 creature | amod |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 creature | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fox | det |
| 12 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm in a quote | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | creature in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | creature | a charming creature not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot creature=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | the Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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