The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Grapes, sentence 2
The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them.
Who acts: grapes, mouth · What happens: seem, burst, water, gaze
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 (grapes, mouth), 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 grapes | det |
| 2 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 burst | mark |
| 6 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ready | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 juice | case |
| 8 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burst | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 watered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 watered | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fox | det |
| 12 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Fox | case |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watered | nsubj |
| 15 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 gazed | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gazed | nsubj |
| 18 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 watered | advcl |
| 19 | longingly | longingly | ADV | _ | 18 gazed | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gazed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the grapes | ready property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burst | to-infinitive | the grapes not said here | with juice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | water | past | the Fox's mouth | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | gaze | past | mouth | at grapes = grape; longingly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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