Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 21
A VERY HUNGRY FOX, seeing some bread and meat left by shepherds in the hollow of an oak, crept into the hole and made a hearty meal.
Who acts: HUNGRY FOX · What happens: see, leave, creep, make · To what, where: bread, meat, hollow, hole, hearty meal
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 FOX | det |
| 2 | VERY | very | ADV | _ | 3 HUNGRY | advmod |
| 3 | HUNGRY | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 FOX | amod |
| 4 | FOX | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crept | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seeing | punct |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 FOX | acl |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 bread | det |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seeing | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 meat | cc |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bread | conj |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 meat | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 shepherds | case |
| 13 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 left | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hollow | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hollow | det |
| 16 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 oak | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 oak | det |
| 19 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hollow | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 FOX | punct |
| 21 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 hole | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hole | det |
| 24 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crept | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 crept | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 meal | det |
| 28 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 meal | amod |
| 29 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | a HUNGRY FOX not said here | some bread and meat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | meat not said here | in the hollow of a oak result; by shepherds | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in hollow=Result | ||||
| 3 | creep | past | a HUNGRY FOX | the hole | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Destination | ||||
| 4 | make | past | a HUNGRY FOX not said here | a hearty meal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meal=Product |
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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