The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 1
A Dog and a Cock, who were the best of friends, wished very much to see something of the world.
Who acts: Cock, Dog · What happens: be, wish, see · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog, the Cock, 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 (Cock, Dog), 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 Dog | det |
| 2 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Cock | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Cock | det |
| 5 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Dog | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 best | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 best | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 best | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 best | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 Cock | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 friends | case |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 best | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dog | punct |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 wished | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wished | advcl |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 something | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a Cock | of friends; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | a Dog and a Cock | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | a Dog and a Cock not said here | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
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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