The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 17
But the Fox did not wait to hear more.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: not wait, hear · To what, where: more
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 (Fox), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 wait | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fox | det |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 wait | advmod |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hear | mark |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wait | advcl |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 hear | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | the Fox | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | the Fox not said here | more | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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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