The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 10

But just as the Country Mouse was about to nibble a dainty bit of pastry, she heard a Cat mew loudly and scratch at the door.

Who acts: Country Mouse, Mouse, Cat · What happens: be, nibble, hear, mew, scratch · To what, where: dainty bit · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Country Mouse, Mouse, Cat), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 about	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	8 about	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 about	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mouse	det
5	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mouse	compound
6	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 about	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 about	cop
8	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 nibble	mark
10	nibble	nibble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 about	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bit	det
12	dainty	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bit	amod
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nibble	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 pastry	case
15	pastry	pastry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bit	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 about	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Cat	det
20	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mew	nsubj
21	mew	mew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 heard	ccomp
22	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	21 mew	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 scratch	cc
24	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 mew	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scratch	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Country Mouse		about property	tree rules
2	nibble	to-infinitive	the Country Mouse not said here	a dainty bit of pastry		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
3	hear	past	Mouse			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	mew	infinitive	a Cat		loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	scratch	infinitive	a Cat not said here		at the door	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=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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