The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 4
He knew the Fox could not get at him, so he went a little closer to get a good look at his enemy.
Who acts: Cock, Fox · What happens: know, not get, go, get · To what, where: good look, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fox | det |
| 4 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 get | advmod |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 little | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 closer | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 went | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 closer | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 look | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 look | amod |
| 21 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 enemy | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 24 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Cock | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not get | could | the Fox | at Cock | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Cock | close property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Cock not said here | a good look | Cock's enemy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at enemy=Asset |
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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