The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Lion, sentence 4
But the third time, the Fox went boldly up to the Lion and, without turning a hair, said, "Hello, there, old top."
Who acts: Fox · What happens: go, turn, say · To what, where: hair, old top · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fox | det |
| 7 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 Lion | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Lion | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lion | det |
| 13 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 turning | mark |
| 17 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 said | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hair | det |
| 19 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turning | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turning | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hello | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hello | punct |
| 24 | Hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 21 said | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hello | punct |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 Hello | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 top | punct |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 top | amod |
| 29 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Fox | time | up the Lion; boldly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up lion=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | a hair | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Fox not said here | old top | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |
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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