The Aesop for Children, The Bat and the Weasels, sentence 10

The Weasel had to admit that the Bat was not a Mouse, so he let him go.

Who acts: Weasel, Bat · What happens: have, admit, not be, let, go · To what, where: Mouse, Weasel

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 (Weasel, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Weasel	det
2	Weasel	Weasel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 admit	mark
5	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 Mouse	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Bat	det
8	Bat	Bat	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mouse	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Mouse	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 Mouse	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Mouse	det
12	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 admit	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 let	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	nsubj
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 admit	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	the Weasel		tree rules
2	admit speech: other	to-infinitive	the Weasel not said here		vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	past	the Bat	a Mouse	tree rules
4	let	infinitive	Bat	Weasel	tree rules
5	go	infinitive	Weasel not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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