The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 3
A Cock, rising early, discovered what had happened.
Who acts: Cock · What happens: rise, discover, happen
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), 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 Cock | det |
| 2 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 discovered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rising | punct |
| 4 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Cock | acl |
| 5 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 rising | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cock | punct |
| 7 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happened | aux |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 discovered | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | a Cock not said here | early property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | discover | past | a Cock | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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