The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Goat, sentence 3
The Goat thought the Fox had gone down to drink, and so he asked if the water was good.
Who acts: Goat, Fox, water · What happens: think, go down, drink, ask, be · 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 (Goat, Fox, water), 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 Goat | det |
| 2 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fox | det |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 gone | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 drink | mark |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gone | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 asked | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 good | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 good | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 good | cop |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Goat | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go down | past · perfect | the Fox | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | the Fox not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Goat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the water | good 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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