The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 1
A Fox was caught in a trap one fine morning, because he had got too near the Farmer's hen house.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: catch, get · To what, where: Fox, trap, hen house
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | aux:pass |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 trap | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trap | det |
| 7 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obl |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 morning | nummod |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 morning | amod |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 got | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | aux |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 caught | conj |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 got | advmod |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Farmer | det |
| 19 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Farmer | case |
| 21 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 house | compound |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | a Fox | a trap | morning | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | Fox | the Farmer's hen house | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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