The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 19
The hungry but unsuspecting Fox, went around the tree as he was told, and in a twinkling the Dog had seized him.
Who acts: hungry Fox · What happens: unsuspect, go, tell, twinkle, seize · To what, where: tree, Fox · 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 (hungry Fox), 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 | 5 Fox | det |
| 2 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Fox | amod |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 unsuspecting | cc |
| 4 | unsuspecting | unsuspect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hungry | conj |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fox | punct |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 told | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | aux:pass |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 went | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seized | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 seized | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Dog | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Dog | det |
| 19 | twinkling | twinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 Dog | amod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Dog | det |
| 21 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seized | obl |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seized | aux |
| 23 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 went | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seized | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unsuspect | gerund | the hungry Fox not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the hungry Fox | the tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | Fox | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | twinkle | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | seize | past · perfect | Fox | in a twinkling Dog | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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