The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Grapes, sentence 5
So he walked off a short distance and took a running leap at it, only to fall short once more.
Who acts: bunch · What happens: walk off, take, run, fall · To what, where: short distance, running leap
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 walked | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 distance | det |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 distance | amod |
| 7 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 leap | det |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 leap | amod |
| 12 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fall | punct |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 fall | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fall | mark |
| 18 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | parataxis |
| 19 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fall | xcomp |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 fall | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk off | past | bunch | a short distance | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | bunch not said here | a running leap | at Fox | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent leap=Theme at it=Asset | |||
| 3 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | fall | to-infinitive | short property | vn occur-48.3 «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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