The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 4
"Have you heard the wonderful news?" cried the Fox in a very joyful and excited manner.
Who acts: you, Fox · What happens: hear, cry · To what, where: wonderful news, joyful manner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 news | det |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 news | amod |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fox | det |
| 12 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 manner | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 manner | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 joyful | advmod |
| 16 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 manner | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 excited | cc |
| 18 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 joyful | conj |
| 19 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present | you | the wonderful news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Fox | a joyful manner | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location |
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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