The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 7
But the Fox lapped it up easily, and, to increase the disappointment of the Stork, made a great show of enjoyment.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: lap up, increase, make, disappoint, show · To what, where: soup, disappointment, great show, Stork, enjoyment
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 lapped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fox | det |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lapped | nsubj |
| 4 | lapped | lap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lapped | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 lapped | compound:prt |
| 7 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 4 lapped | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 increase | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 increase | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 increase | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 increase | mark |
| 12 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lapped | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 disappointment | det |
| 14 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 increase | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Stork | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Stork | det |
| 17 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 disappointment | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lapped | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 show | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 show | amod |
| 22 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 enjoyment | case |
| 24 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 show | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lap up | past | the Fox | soup | easily property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | increase | to-infinitive | the Fox not said here | the disappointment of the Stork | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer disappointment=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the Fox not said here | a great show of enjoyment | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset show=Product | ||||
| 4 | disappoint | the Stork | nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | show | enjoyment | nom show «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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