The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 1
One bright evening as the sun was sinking on a glorious world a wise old Cock flew into a tree to roost.
Who acts: sun, wise old Cock · What happens: sink, fly, roost · To what, where: One bright evening, glorious world, tree
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, 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 (sun, wise old 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 evening | nummod |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | amod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 sinking | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sinking | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sinking | aux |
| 8 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 evening | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 11 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 world | amod |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sinking | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Cock | det |
| 14 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Cock | amod |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Cock | amod |
| 16 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flew | nsubj |
| 17 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flew | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 roost | mark |
| 22 | roost | roost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 flew | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past · progressive | the sun | One bright evening not said here | a glorious world | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent evening=Patient | |||
| 2 | fly | past | a wise old Cock | evening | into a tree result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result | |||
| 3 | roost | to-infinitive | a wise old Cock not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=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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