The Aesop for Children, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, sentence 2
While the Ass cropped a fresh bit of greens, the Fox would devour a chicken from the neighboring farmyard or a bit of cheese filched from the dairy.
Who acts: Ass, Fox · What happens: crop, devour, neighbor, filch · To what, where: fresh bit, chicken, neighboring farmyard, cheese, dairy
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 cropped | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ass | det |
| 3 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cropped | nsubj |
| 4 | cropped | crop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 devour | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bit | amod |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cropped | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 greens | case |
| 9 | greens | green | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bit | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cropped | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fox | det |
| 12 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 devour | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 devour | aux |
| 14 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 chicken | det |
| 16 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 devour | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 farmyard | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 farmyard | det |
| 19 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 farmyard | amod |
| 20 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 devour | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 bit | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bit | det |
| 23 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 farmyard | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 cheese | case |
| 25 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bit | nmod |
| 26 | filched | filch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 cheese | acl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 dairy | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dairy | det |
| 29 | dairy | dairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 filched | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 devour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crop | past | the Ass | a fresh bit of greens | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | devour | would | the Fox | a chicken | the neighboring farmyard or a bit of cheese | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Patient | |||
| 3 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | filch | participle | cheese not said here | the dairy | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from dairy=Source |
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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