--- title: "Maître Corbeau, sur un arbre perché, tenait en son bec un fromage"… — Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Maître Corbeau, sur un arbre perché, tenait en son bec un fromage" is the start of a fable by La Fontaine (1668): Mr Crow, perched in a tree, held a cheese in his beak; a fox later tricks him into dropping it. Who acts: bec un fromage, start, fox. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bec un fromage, start, fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.lesson:8 # text = "Maître Corbeau, sur un arbre perché, tenait en son bec un fromage" is the start of a fable by La Fontaine (1668): Mr Crow, perched in a tree, held a cheese in his beak; a fox later tricks him into dropping it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Maître Maître PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 3 Corbeau Corbeau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 sur sur PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 arbre arbre ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 perché perché NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 10 tenait tenait NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 bec bec NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 fromage fromage NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fable fable NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 La La PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 Fontaine Fontaine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 27 1668 1668 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 appos _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 Mr mr NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 perched perch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 38 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 44 ; ; PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 47 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 48 advmod _ _ 48 tricks trick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 49 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 into into SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 51 dropping drop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 advcl _ _ 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 obj _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | bec un fromage | the start | | | | of a fable by La and Mr Crow | tree rules | | 2 | **perch** | participle | | Mr Crow *not said here* | | a tree | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | | 3 | **hold** | past | the start | a cheese | | start's beak | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme in beak=Location | | 4 | **trick** | present | a fox | start | | | | late *property* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 5 | **drop** | gerund | a fox *not said here* | fox | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:french:039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.lesson:8`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: decoding a short French text…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/7/) - next →: [Olympiad: decoding a short French text…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/)