The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 12

The Stork could easily get at the food with his long bill, but all the Fox could do was to lick the outside of the jar, and sniff at the delicious odor.

Who acts: Stork, Fox · What happens: get, do, be, lick, sniff, bill · To what, where: food, outside

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 (Stork, 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 Stork	det
2	Stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	easily	easily	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 food	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 food	det
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 bill	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bill	nmod:poss
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bill	amod
12	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 do	cc
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 Fox	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Fox	det
17	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 do	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 get	conj
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 do	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 lick	mark
22	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 was	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 outside	det
24	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lick	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 jar	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 jar	det
27	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 outside	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sniff	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sniff	cc
30	sniff	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	34 odor	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 odor	det
33	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 odor	amod
34	odor	odor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sniff	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	could	the Stork		the food	with Fox's long bill; easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	could	all Fox				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	all Fox not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lick	to-infinitive	all Fox not said here	the outside of the jar			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent outside=Source
5	sniff	present	the Stork not said here			at the delicious odor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at odor=Theme
6	bill		Fox				nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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