The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Leopard, sentence 3

The Fox prided himself on his fine bushy tail with its tip of white, but he was wise enough to see that he could not rival the Leopard in looks.

Who acts: Fox, Leopard · What happens: pride, be, see, not rival · To what, where: Leopard, fine bushy tail, looks · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Leopard), 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 Fox	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prided	nsubj
3	prided	pride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 prided	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 tail	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tail	nmod:poss
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tail	amod
8	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tail	amod
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prided	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 tip	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tip	nmod:poss
12	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tail	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 white	case
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tip	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wise	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 wise	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wise	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wise	cop
19	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prided	parataxis
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 wise	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wise	csubj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 rival	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rival	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 rival	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 rival	advmod
27	rival	rival	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 see	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Leopard	det
29	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 rival	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 looks	case
31	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 rival	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pride	past	the Fox	Leopard	Leopard's fine bushy tail with tail's tip of white		tree rules
2	is	past	Leopard			enough, wise property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not rival	could	Leopard	the Leopard	looks		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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