The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 25
The Cock smiled as he buried his head in his feathers and went to sleep, for he had succeeded in outwitting a very crafty enemy.
Who acts: Cock · What happens: smile, bury, go, succeed, outwit · To what, where: head, feathers, sleep, crafty enemy
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cock | det |
| 2 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smiled | nsubj |
| 3 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 buried | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 buried | nsubj |
| 6 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smiled | ccomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buried | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 feathers | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 buried | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smiled | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sleep | case |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 succeeded | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 succeeded | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 succeeded | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 succeeded | aux |
| 20 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 went | conj |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 outwitting | mark |
| 22 | outwitting | outwit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 succeeded | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 enemy | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 crafty | advmod |
| 25 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 enemy | amod |
| 26 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 outwitting | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | the Cock | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bury | past | Cock | Cock's head | Cock's feathers | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in feather=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | the Cock not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | succeed | past · perfect | Cock | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | outwit | gerund | Cock not said here | a crafty enemy | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot enemy=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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