The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crab, sentence 5

But there a hungry Fox spied him, and in a twinkling, ate him up, both shell and claw.

Who acts: hungry Fox · What happens: spy, eat up · To what, where: him, Fox, twinkling

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 (hungry 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	_	6 spied	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 spied	expl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Fox	det
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Fox	amod
5	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spied	nsubj
6	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spied	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ate	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 twinkling	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 twinkling	det
12	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ate	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 twinkling	punct
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spied	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ate	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 ate	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shell	punct
18	both	both	CCONJ	_	19 shell	cc:preconj
19	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spied	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 claw	cc
21	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shell	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spy	past	a hungry Fox	him = he		there		shell and claw obl	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	eat up	past	a hungry Fox not said here	Fox		a twinkling			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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