The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crab, sentence 3

There he would find better fare than briny water and sand mites.

Who acts: he · What happens: find · To what, where: better fare

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crab. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 find	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 fare	amod
6	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	briny	briny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fare	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mites	cc
11	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mites	compound
12	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fare	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	he	better fare and sand mites		there		than briny water	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fare=Topic

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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