The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 15
"Why, it looks to me like a couple of Dogs coming this way.
Who acts: way, Dogs · What happens: look, come · To what, where: Fox, way
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 (way, Dogs), 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 | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looks | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 looks | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 couple | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 couple | det |
| 10 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Dogs | case |
| 12 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 couple | nmod |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 Dogs | acl |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | way | the Fox = fox | like a couple of Dogs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | gerund | Dogs not said here | this way | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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