The Aesop for Children, The Wild Boar and the Fox, sentence 1
A Wild Boar was sharpening his tusks busily against the stump of a tree, when a Fox happened by.
Who acts: Wild Boar, Fox · What happens: sharpen, happen by · To what, where: tusks
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wild Boar 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 (Wild Boar, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Boar | det |
| 2 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Boar | amod |
| 3 | Boar | Boar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sharpening | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sharpening | aux |
| 5 | sharpening | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tusks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sharpening | obj |
| 8 | busily | busily | ADV | _ | 5 sharpening | advmod |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 stump | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stump | det |
| 11 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sharpening | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stump | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 happened | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 happened | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Fox | det |
| 18 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sharpening | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 happened | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sharpening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sharpen | past · progressive | a Wild Boar | Boar's tusks | against the stump of a tree; busily property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tusk=Patient | |||
| 2 | happen by | past | a Fox | 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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