The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Jewel, sentence 1
A Cock was busily scratching and scraping about to find something to eat for himself and his family, when he happened to turn up a precious jewel that had been lost by its owner.
Who acts: Cock, owner · What happens: scratch, scrape, find, eat, happen, turn up · To what, where: something, precious jewel
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Jewel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cock, owner), 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 | 5 scratching | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scratching | aux |
| 4 | busily | busily | ADV | _ | 5 scratching | advmod |
| 5 | scratching | scratch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 scraping | cc |
| 7 | scraping | scrape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 scratching | conj |
| 8 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 scraping | advcl |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 find | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 something | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 eat | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 family | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 family | nmod:poss |
| 18 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 himself | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 happened | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 happened | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 happened | nsubj |
| 22 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scratching | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 turn | mark |
| 24 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 happened | xcomp |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 turn | compound:prt |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 jewel | det |
| 27 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 jewel | amod |
| 28 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turn | obj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 lost | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 lost | aux:pass |
| 32 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 jewel | acl:relcl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 owner | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 owner | nmod:poss |
| 35 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lost | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scratching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | past · progressive | a Cock | busily property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | scrape | gerund | a Cock not said here | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | a Cock not said here | something | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | a Cock not said here | something not said here | for Cock | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | happen | past | Cock | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | turn up | to-infinitive | Cock not said here | a precious jewel | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jewel=Theme | ||||
| 7 | lose | past · perfect · passive | jewel's owner | a precious jewel | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
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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