The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 11
"How grand!" said the Cock. "
Who acts: Cock · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grand | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 grand | advmod |
| 3 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 grand | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grand | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grand | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Cock | det |
| 8 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grand | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Cock | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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