The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Leopard, sentence 4

Still he kept up a flow of sarcastic talk, just to exercise his wits and to have the fun of disputing.

Who acts: Leopard, sarcastic talk · What happens: keep up, exercise, have, flow · To what, where: flow, wits, fun

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, sarcastic talk), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 kept	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flow	det
6	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 talk	case
8	sarcastic	sarcastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 talk	amod
9	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flow	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 exercise	punct
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 exercise	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 exercise	mark
13	exercise	exercise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wits	nmod:poss
15	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 exercise	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 exercise	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fun	det
20	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 disputing	case
22	disputing	disputing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fun	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep up	past	Leopard	a flow of sarcastic talk	still	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent flow=Theme
2	exercise	to-infinitive		Leopard's wits		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient
3	have	to-infinitive		the fun of disputing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient
4	flow		sarcastic talk			nom flow «event intransitive»: of=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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