The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Goat, sentence 4
"The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it.
Who acts: finest · What happens: say, jump in, try · To what, where: crafty Fox, Fox · 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 (finest), 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 | _ | 3 finest | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 finest | det |
| 3 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 said | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 country | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finest | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 finest | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 finest | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fox | det |
| 12 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Fox | amod |
| 13 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 jump | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 jump | punct |
| 16 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 jump | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 try | cc |
| 19 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 jump | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 try | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the finest | the crafty Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | ||||
| 2 | jump in in a quote | infinitive | the finest not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try in a quote | infinitive | the finest not said here | Fox | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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