The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 5

But it was set out in a very shallow dish, and all the Stork could do was to wet the very tip of his bill.

Who acts: Fox · What happens: set out, be, bill · To what, where: Stork, shallow dish

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 set	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux:pass
4	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 wet	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 dish	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dish	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 shallow	advmod
9	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dish	amod
10	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 do	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 Stork	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Stork	det
15	Stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 wet	aux
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wet	cop
19	to	to	PART	_	20 wet	mark
20	wet	wet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tip	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 tip	advmod
23	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wet	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 bill	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 bill	nmod:poss
26	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tip	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 wet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	past · passive		Stork	a shallow dish		tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive · do-support				wet property	tree rules
3	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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