The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 10
He soon roused the whole hen yard, and when the Farmer came running out, that was the end of Mr. Fox.
Who acts: Cock, Farmer, that · What happens: rouse, come, run out, be · To what, where: whole hen yard, end
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 (Cock, Farmer, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 roused | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 roused | advmod |
| 3 | roused | rouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 yard | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 yard | amod |
| 6 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yard | compound |
| 7 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 end | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 end | cc |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Farmer | det |
| 12 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 end | advcl |
| 14 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 came | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 running | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 end | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 end | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Fox | case |
| 22 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Fox | compound |
| 23 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 end | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | past | Cock | the whole hen yard | soon property | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yard=Patient | |||
| 2 | come | past | the Farmer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run out | gerund | the Farmer not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | that | the end | of Mr. Fox | tree rules |
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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