The Aesop for Children, The Bat and the Weasels, sentence 5
"But I am not a Mouse!" cried the Bat. "
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: not be, cry · To what, where: Mouse, Bat · 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 (Mouse), 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 | _ | 7 Mouse | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 Mouse | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Mouse | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Mouse | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 Mouse | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Mouse | det |
| 7 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mouse | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mouse | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bat | det |
| 12 | Bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | a Mouse = mouse | a Mouse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a Mouse | the Bat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Topic |
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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