The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 2
Before he composed himself to rest, he flapped his wings three times and crowed loudly.
Who acts: Cock · What happens: compose, rest, flap, crow · To what, where: Cock, wings
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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 composed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 composed | nsubj |
| 3 | composed | compose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flapped | advcl |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 composed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rest | mark |
| 6 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 composed | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 composed | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flapped | nsubj |
| 9 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flapped | obj |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flapped | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crowed | cc |
| 15 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flapped | conj |
| 16 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 15 crowed | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose | past | Cock | Cock | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | Cock not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flap | past | Cock | Cock's wings | time | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | |||
| 4 | crow | past | Cock not said here | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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