The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Grapes, sentence 1
A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree.
Who acts: Fox, ripe grapes · What happens: spy, hang, train · To what, where: beautiful bunch, vine
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, ripe grapes), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spied | nsubj |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bunch | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bunch | amod |
| 8 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spied | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 grapes | case |
| 10 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grapes | amod |
| 11 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bunch | nmod |
| 12 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 grapes | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 vine | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 vine | det |
| 15 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hanging | obl |
| 16 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 vine | acl |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 19 branches | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 branches | det |
| 19 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 trained | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 branches | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spy | past | a Fox one day | a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bunch=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | ripe grapes not said here | a vine | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | train | participle | a vine not said here | along the branches of a tree | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: 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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