The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, sentence 3
They fought until one of them was beaten and crawled off to a corner to hide.
Who acts: Cocks · What happens: fight, beat, crawl off, hide · To what, where: one, corner
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cocks), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 beaten | mark |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 beaten | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beaten | aux:pass |
| 8 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fought | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 crawled | cc |
| 10 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 beaten | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 crawled | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 corner | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 corner | det |
| 14 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crawled | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hide | mark |
| 16 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 corner | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | Cocks = cock | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beat | past · passive | one of Cocks | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | crawl off | participle | a corner | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to corner=Destination | |||||
| 4 | hide | to-infinitive | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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