The Aesop for Children, The Wild Boar and the Fox, sentence 2
Now the Fox was always looking for a chance to make fun of his neighbors.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: look, make · To what, where: fun
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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 looking | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fox | det |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looking | aux |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 looking | advmod |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 chance | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chance | det |
| 9 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 looking | advcl |
| 12 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 neighbors | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 15 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fun | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | the Fox | now | for a chance; always property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for chance=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the Fox not said here | fun of Fox's neighbors | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |
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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