--- title: But just as he was about to put his head under his wing, his beady e… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics description: But just as he was about to put his head under his wing, his beady eyes caught a flash of red and a glimpse of a long pointed nose, and there just below him stood Master Fox. Who acts: Cock, beady eyes. 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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 (Cock, beady eyes), 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:pg19994:70:3 # text = But just as he was about to put his head under his wing, his beady eyes caught a flash of red and a glimpse of a long pointed nose, and there just below him stood Master Fox. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 under under ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 beady beady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 flash flash NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 glimpse glimpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 pointed point VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 37 expl _ _ 34 just just ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 below below ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 37 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 38 Master Master PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Cock | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | Cock *not said here* | Cock's head | | Cock's wing | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme under wing=Destination | | 3 | **catch** | past | Cock's beady eyes | a flash of red and a glimpse of a long pointed nose | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flash=Theme | | 4 | **point** | participle | | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stand** | past | Cock *not said here* | Master Fox | | there | | below Cock | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fox=Theme below he=Destination | | 6 | **glimpse** | | | a long pointed nose | | | | | nom glimpse «act 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:** «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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/70/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/70/4/) - ↑ back to [The Cock and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/70/)