The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Goat, sentence 1
A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again.
Who acts: Fox, he · What happens: fall, not be, find, not get out · To what, where: well · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, he), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 well | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 well | det |
| 6 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 deep | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 deep | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 deep | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 deep | advmod |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 deep | advmod |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 found | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 deep | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 get | advmod |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 found | ccomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a Fox | into a well result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into well=Result | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | Fox | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | past | he | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not get out | could | he | again | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «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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