--- title: The Cock smiled as he buried his head in his feathers and went to sl… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics description: The Cock smiled as he buried his head in his feathers and went to sleep, for he had succeeded in outwitting a very crafty enemy. Who acts: Cock. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/70/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / [The Cock and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/70/) / 25 # The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 25 The Cock smiled as he buried his head in his feathers and went to sleep, for he had succeeded in outwitting a very crafty enemy. **Who acts:** Cock · **What happens:** smile, bury, go, succeed, outwit · **To what, where:** head, feathers, sleep, crafty enemy This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cock), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg19994:70:25 # text = The Cock smiled as he buried his head in his feathers and went to sleep, for he had succeeded in outwitting a very crafty enemy. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 buried bury VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 succeeded succeed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 21 in in SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 outwitting outwit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 crafty crafty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smile** | past | the Cock | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **bury** | past | Cock | Cock's head | | Cock's feathers | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in feather=Destination | | 3 | **go** | past | the Cock *not said here* | | | sleep | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **succeed** | past · perfect | Cock | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **outwit** | gerund | Cock *not said here* | a crafty enemy | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot enemy=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. **Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/70/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/70/26/) - ↑ back to [The Cock and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/70/)