The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Grapes, sentence 3
The bunch hung from a high branch, and the Fox had to jump for it.
Who acts: bunch, Fox · What happens: hang, have, jump · To what, where: high branch
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 (bunch, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bunch | det |
| 2 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 branch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 branch | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 branch | amod |
| 7 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fox | det |
| 11 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hung | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 jump | mark |
| 14 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 jump | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | the bunch | a high branch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Fox | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | jump | to-infinitive | the Fox not said here | for Fox | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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