The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 11
But instead of awakening the farmer, he awakened a Fox not far off in the wood.
Who acts: Cock · What happens: awaken · To what, where: farmer, Fox
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 awakened | cc |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 awakening | mark |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | awakening | awaken | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 awakened | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 farmer | det |
| 6 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awakening | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 awakening | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 awakened | nsubj |
| 9 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Fox | det |
| 11 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 awakened | obj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 off | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 off | advmod |
| 14 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 awakened | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 off | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | gerund | Cock not said here | the farmer | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location farmer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | awaken | past | Cock | a Fox | off property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fox=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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