The Aesop for Children, The Wild Boar and the Fox, sentence 3
So he made a great show of looking anxiously about, as if in fear of some hidden enemy.
Who acts: Fox, great show · What happens: make, look, fear · To what, where: great show, hidden enemy
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, great show), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 show | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 show | amod |
| 6 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 looking | mark |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 show | acl |
| 9 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 10 about | advmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 looking | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 as | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 fear | case |
| 15 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 if | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 enemy | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 enemy | det |
| 18 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 enemy | amod |
| 19 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fear | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Fox | a great show | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Product | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | a great show not said here | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fear | some hidden enemy | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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