The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Leopard, sentence 2

The Leopard was very proud of his glossy, spotted coat and made disdainful remarks about the Fox, whose appearance he declared was quite ordinary.

Who acts: Leopard, disdainful remarks · What happens: be, spot, make, declare · To what, where: coat, appearance

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 (Leopard, disdainful remarks), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Leopard	det
2	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 proud	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 proud	advmod
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 glossy	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 glossy	nmod:poss
8	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 proud	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spotted	punct
10	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 proud	parataxis
11	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spotted	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	conj
14	disdainful	disdainful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 remarks	amod
15	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ordinary	nsubj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 Fox	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Fox	det
18	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remarks	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 appearance	punct
20	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	21 appearance	nmod:poss
21	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remarks	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 declared	nsubj
23	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 appearance	acl:relcl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ordinary	cop
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 ordinary	advmod
26	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 made	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Leopard		of Leopard's glossy; proud property	tree rules
2	spot	participle		coat		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coat=Destination
3	make	past	the Leopard not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	declare speech: other	past	Leopard	disdainful remarks about the Fox and disdainful remarks about the Fox and appearance's appearance's appearance not said here		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Attribute
5	is	past	disdainful remarks about the Fox and disdainful remarks about the Fox and disdainful remarks's appearance's appearance		ordinary property	tree rules

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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