The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 1
A Town Mouse once visited a relative who lived in the country.
Who acts: Town Mouse, relative · What happens: visit, live · To what, where: relative, country
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Town Mouse, relative), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Mouse | det |
| 2 | Town | town | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Mouse | amod |
| 3 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 visited | nsubj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 visited | advmod |
| 5 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 relative | det |
| 7 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 visited | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 relative | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | a Town Mouse | a relative | once property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | live | past | a relative | the country | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=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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