The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 8
The hungry Stork was much displeased at the trick, but he was a calm, even-tempered fellow and saw no good in flying into a rage.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: displease, be, temper, see, fly · To what, where: hungry Stork, trick, fellow, good, rage
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Stork | det |
| 2 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Stork | amod |
| 3 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 displeased | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 displeased | aux:pass |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 displeased | advmod |
| 6 | displeased | displease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 trick | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trick | det |
| 9 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 displeased | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 calm | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 calm | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 calm | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 calm | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 calm | det |
| 15 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 displeased | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tempered | punct |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 tempered | advmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 even | punct |
| 19 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 calm | conj |
| 20 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tempered | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tempered | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 good | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 saw | obj |
| 25 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 26 flying | mark |
| 26 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 saw | advcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 rage | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 rage | det |
| 29 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flying | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 displeased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | displease | past · passive | the hungry Stork | the trick | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Fox | calm property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | temper | participle | Fox not said here | fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Fox not said here | no good | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | fly | gerund | Fox not said here | into a rage result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result |
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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