The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Goat, sentence 9

But the Fox was already on his way to the woods.

Who acts: Fox · What happens: be · To what, where: way

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), 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	_	8 way	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fox	det
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
5	already	already	ADV	_	8 way	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 woods	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woods	det
11	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 way	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Fox			Goat's way		to the woods	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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