The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 6
But he had a queer, fluttery feeling inside him, for, you know, he was very much afraid of the Fox.
Who acts: news, you · What happens: have, know, be · To what, where: queer
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 (news, you), 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 | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 queer | det |
| 5 | queer | queer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feeling | punct |
| 7 | fluttery | fluttery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feeling | amod |
| 8 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 queer | appos |
| 9 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 feeling | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 afraid | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 afraid | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 afraid | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 afraid | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 afraid | advmod |
| 21 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Fox | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Fox | det |
| 24 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 afraid | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | news | a queer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queer=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | news | of the Fox; afraid property | tree rules |
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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