The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 13
Hurrying to the tree where the Cock was roosting, he said very politely:
Who acts: Cock · What happens: hurry, roost, say · To what, where: tree · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Hurrying | hurry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hurrying | obl |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 roosting | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Cock | det |
| 7 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roosting | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 roosting | aux |
| 9 | roosting | roost | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 tree | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hurrying | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 politely | advmod |
| 14 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | gerund | Cock not said here | the tree | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tree=Destination | ||||
| 2 | roost | past · progressive | the Cock | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Cock | politely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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