The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 5
The Dog could creep inside and the Cock would fly up on one of the branches.
Who acts: Dog, Cock · What happens: creep, fly up
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 (Dog, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dog | det |
| 2 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 creep | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 creep | aux |
| 4 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 4 creep | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fly | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Cock | det |
| 8 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fly | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fly | aux |
| 10 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 creep | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 fly | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 fly | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 branches | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 branches | det |
| 16 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 creep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | could | the Dog | inside property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly up | would | the Cock | on one of the branches | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on one=Location |
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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