The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 9
He thought he was still in the farmyard where it had been his duty to arouse the household at daybreak.
Who acts: Cock, farmyard · What happens: think, be, arouse · To what, where: farmyard, duty, household, daybreak · 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, farmyard), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 farmyard | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 farmyard | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 farmyard | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 farmyard | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farmyard | det |
| 8 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 duty | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 duty | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 duty | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 duty | cop |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 duty | nmod:poss |
| 14 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 farmyard | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 arouse | mark |
| 16 | arouse | arouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 duty | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 household | det |
| 18 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arouse | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 daybreak | case |
| 20 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arouse | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Cock | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Cock | the farmyard | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past · perfect | farmyard | Cock's duty | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | arouse | to-infinitive | Cock not said here | the household | daybreak | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus household=Experiencer |
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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