The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Lion, sentence 2
A single look was enough to send the Fox off at top speed for the nearest hiding place.
Who acts: single look · What happens: be, send off · To what, where: Fox, top speed
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single look), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 look | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | amod |
| 3 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enough | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | cop |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 send | mark |
| 7 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 enough | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fox | det |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 send | compound:prt |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 speed | case |
| 12 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 speed | amod |
| 13 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 16 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 place | amod |
| 17 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 place | compound |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a single look | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send off | to-infinitive | a single look not said here | the Fox | top speed | for the nearest hiding place | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme |
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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