The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 6

"Dear friend," he said, "I was just on my way to visit a sick relative, when I stumbled into this string and got all tangled up.

Who acts: Fox · What happens: say, be, visit, stumble, tangle up · To what, where: way, sick relative, string · 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 (Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:1191): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 friend	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 friend	amod
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 way	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 friend	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 friend	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 way	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 way	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	15 way	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 visit	mark
17	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 way	acl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sick	det
19	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 relative	amod
20	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 visit	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stumbled	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 stumbled	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 stumbled	nsubj
24	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 way	advcl
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 string	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 string	det
27	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stumbled	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tangled	cc
29	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tangled	aux:pass
30	all	all	ADV	_	31 tangled	advmod
31	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 stumbled	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 tangled	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fox				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	Fox		my way	Dear friend vocative	tree rules
3	visit in a quote	to-infinitive	Fox not said here	sick relative			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=Co-Agent
4	stumble in a quote	past	Fox		this string		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into string=Destination
5	tangle up in a quote	past · passive	Fox not said here			all property	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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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