The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 9
In an instant the Cat was up a tree, hiding among the leaves.
Who acts: Cat, tree · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: tree, instant, leaves
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat, tree), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Cat | det |
| 5 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tree | cop |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 was | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hiding | punct |
| 11 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 tree | acl |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 leaves | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 leaves | det |
| 14 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hiding | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Cat | a tree | a instant | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hide | gerund | a tree not said here | the leaves | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among leaf=Location |
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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