The Aesop for Children, The Bat and the Weasels, sentence 3
"You are a Mouse," he said, "and I am a sworn enemy of Mice.
Who acts: You, Weasel · What happens: be, say, swear · To what, where: Mouse, sworn enemy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, Weasel), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mouse | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 Mouse | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Mouse | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Mouse | det |
| 5 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mouse | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mouse | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 enemy | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 enemy | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 enemy | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 enemy | det |
| 16 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 enemy | amod |
| 17 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Mice | case |
| 19 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 enemy | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a Mouse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Weasel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | swear in a quote | participle | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Weasel | a sworn enemy | of Mice | tree rules |
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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