The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 3
The Stork gladly accepted the invitation and arrived in good time and with a very good appetite.
Who acts: Stork · What happens: accept, arrive · To what, where: invitation
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), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 accepted | advmod |
| 4 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 invitation | det |
| 6 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accepted | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 arrived | cc |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 accepted | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 appetite | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 appetite | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 appetite | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 appetite | amod |
| 17 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the Stork | the invitation | gladly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | the Stork not said here | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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