The Aesop for Children, The Bat and the Weasels, sentence 1

A Bat blundered into the nest of a Weasel, who ran up to catch and eat him.

Who acts: Bat · What happens: blunder, run up, catch, eat · To what, where: Bat, nest

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bat and the Weasels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bat), 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 Bat	det
2	Bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	nsubj
3	blundered	blunder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Bat	acl
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 nest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nest	det
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blundered	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Weasel	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Weasel	det
9	Weasel	Weasel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 nest	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 ran	nsubj
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 ran	compound:prt
14	to	to	PART	_	15 catch	mark
15	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ran	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eat	cc
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 catch	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eat	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	blunder	participle		a Bat not said here	the nest of a Weasel	tree rules
2	run up	past	a Bat			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	to-infinitive	a Bat not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	eat	infinitive	a Bat not said here	Bat		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: «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.

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