The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 4

At nightfall the Cock, looking for a place to roost, as was his custom, spied nearby a hollow tree that he thought would do very nicely for a night's lodging.

Who acts: nightfall, Cock · What happens: look, roost, be, spy, think, do · To what, where: hollow tree, nightfall

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 (nightfall, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 nightfall	case
2	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spied	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cock	det
4	Cock	Cock	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 nightfall	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 nightfall	punct
6	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 nightfall	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 place	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 roost	mark
11	roost	roost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 place	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 nightfall	punct
13	as	as	ADP	_	16 custom	case
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 custom	cop
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 custom	nmod:poss
16	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nightfall	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 nightfall	punct
18	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	18 spied	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tree	det
21	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tree	amod
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spied	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 thought	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spied	advcl
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 thought	xcomp
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 nicely	advmod
29	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	27 do	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	34 lodging	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 night	det
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lodging	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 night	case
34	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 spied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	nightfall not said here			for a place	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for place=Theme
2	roost	to-infinitive	nightfall not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past				as Cock's custom	tree rules
4	spy	past		a hollow tree	nightfall	nearby property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	past	Cock				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	do	would	Cock not said here			for a night's lodging; nicely property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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