The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Leopard, sentence 1
A Fox and a Leopard, resting lazily after a generous dinner, amused themselves by disputing about their good looks.
Who acts: Fox, generous dinner · What happens: rest, amuse, dispute · To what, where: Fox
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Leopard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, generous dinner), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Leopard | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Leopard | det |
| 5 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 resting | punct |
| 7 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Fox | acl |
| 8 | lazily | lazily | ADV | _ | 7 resting | advmod |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 dinner | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dinner | det |
| 11 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dinner | amod |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 resting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 amused | punct |
| 14 | amused | amuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 dinner | acl |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 amused | obj |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 disputing | mark |
| 17 | disputing | dispute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 amused | advcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 looks | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 looks | nmod:poss |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 looks | amod |
| 21 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 disputing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | gerund | a Fox and a Leopard not said here | after a generous dinner | lazily property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | amuse | participle | a generous dinner not said here | Fox | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | dispute | gerund | a generous dinner not said here | about Fox's good looks | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about look=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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