The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 11

But it was served in a tall jar with a very narrow neck.

What happens: serve · To what, where: Stork, tall jar

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: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 served	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 served	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 served	aux:pass
4	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 jar	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 jar	det
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jar	amod
8	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 served	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 neck	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 neck	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 narrow	advmod
12	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 neck	amod
13	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jar	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 served	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	past · passive		Stork		a tall jar with a narrow neck			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in jar=Location

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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