The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 9
Instead, not long afterward, he invited the Fox to dine with him in turn.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: invite, dine · To what, where: Fox, turn
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 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Instead | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 invited | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 invited | nsubj |
| 8 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fox | det |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invited | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 dine | mark |
| 12 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 invited | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dine | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 turn | case |
| 16 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dine | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | Fox | the Fox | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dine not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Fox not said here | turn | with Fox | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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