The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 3
But just as he was about to put his head under his wing, his beady eyes caught a flash of red and a glimpse of a long pointed nose, and there just below him stood Master Fox.
Who acts: Cock, beady eyes · What happens: be, put, catch, point, stand, glimpse · To what, where: head, wing, flash, Master Fox, long pointed nose
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, beady eyes), 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 about | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 about | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 about | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 about | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 put | mark |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 about | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 wing | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wing | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beady | beady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 caught | nsubj |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 flash | det |
| 20 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caught | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 red | case |
| 22 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flash | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 glimpse | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 glimpse | det |
| 25 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flash | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 nose | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 nose | det |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 nose | amod |
| 29 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 nose | amod |
| 30 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 glimpse | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 stood | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 stood | cc |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 37 stood | expl |
| 34 | just | just | ADV | _ | 37 stood | advmod |
| 35 | below | below | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 stood | obl |
| 37 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | conj |
| 38 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Fox | compound |
| 39 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stood | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Cock | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | Cock not said here | Cock's head | Cock's wing | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme under wing=Destination | |||
| 3 | catch | past | Cock's beady eyes | a flash of red and a glimpse of a long pointed nose | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flash=Theme | ||||
| 4 | point | participle | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | stand | past | Cock not said here | Master Fox | there | below Cock | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fox=Theme below he=Destination | ||
| 6 | glimpse | a long pointed nose | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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