Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 89
A CAT caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating him.
Who acts: CAT, Fox · What happens: catch, ponder, find, eat · To what, where: Cock, reasonable excuse, Fox
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CAT, 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 CAT | det |
| 2 | CAT | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Cock | det |
| 5 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pondered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pondered | cc |
| 8 | pondered | ponder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 find | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pondered | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 excuse | det |
| 14 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 excuse | amod |
| 15 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 eating | mark |
| 17 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 find | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eating | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | a CAT | a Cock | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ponder | past | a CAT not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | might | Fox | a reasonable excuse | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Topic | ||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | 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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