The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 1
The Fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense of the Stork, at whose odd appearance he was always laughing.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: amuse, laugh, think · To what, where: Fox, expense, odd appearance, plan
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Stork. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | compound |
| 5 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 plan | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 plan | det |
| 8 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 amuse | mark |
| 10 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 plan | acl |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 amuse | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 expense | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 expense | det |
| 14 | expense | expense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 amuse | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Stork | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Stork | det |
| 17 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 expense | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 appearance | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 appearance | case |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 22 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 21 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 appearance | amod |
| 22 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 amuse | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 laughing | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 laughing | aux |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 26 laughing | advmod |
| 26 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 appearance | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse | to-infinitive | Fox | the expense of the Stork | at odd appearance | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | laugh | past · progressive | Fox | odd appearance not said here | always property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme | |||
| 3 | think | a plan | nom thought «cognition 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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