The Aesop for Children, The Bat and the Weasels, sentence 12
This Weasel happened to be a bitter enemy of Birds, and he soon had the Bat under his claws, ready to eat him.
Who acts: Weasel, Bat · What happens: happen, be, have, eat · To what, where: bitter enemy, Bat
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Weasel | det |
| 2 | Weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 enemy | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 enemy | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 enemy | det |
| 7 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 enemy | amod |
| 8 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Birds | case |
| 10 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 enemy | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 had | advmod |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Bat | det |
| 17 | Bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 claws | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 claws | nmod:poss |
| 20 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 had | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ready | punct |
| 22 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 claws | amod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 eat | mark |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ready | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 eat | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | this Weasel | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | this Weasel not said here | a bitter enemy | of Birds | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | past | Weasel | the Bat | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | the 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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