The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Fox, sentence 2
A Fox chanced to see them and laughed scornfully.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: chance, see, laugh · To what, where: Dogs
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs and the Fox. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chanced | nsubj |
| 3 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chanced | xcomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laughed | cc |
| 8 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chanced | conj |
| 9 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 8 laughed | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | participle | a Fox | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | a Fox not said here | Dogs = dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | a Fox not said here | scornfully property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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