Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 96
A Fox came across him, and being very hungry ate him up.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: come, be, eat up · To what, where: Fox
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ate | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ate | cc |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hungry | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 hungry | advmod |
| 10 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ate | advcl |
| 11 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ate | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 ate | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a Fox | across MAN | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | hungry property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | eat up | past | a Fox not said here | Fox | 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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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