The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 4
For dinner the Fox served soup.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: serve · To what, where: soup
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 dinner | case |
| 2 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 served | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fox | det |
| 4 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 served | nsubj |
| 5 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 served | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | the Fox | soup | for dinner | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent soup=Theme for dinner=Recipient |
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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