Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 92
At that very moment the Fox came in and heard these last words of the Wolf.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: come in, hear, word · To what, where: last words, Wolf
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 moment | advmod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fox | det |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heard | cc |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 words | det |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heard | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Wolf | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Wolf | det |
| 16 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 words | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the Fox | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the Fox not said here | this last words of the Wolf | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | word | the Wolf | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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