The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 11
In great fear the Mice scurried to a hiding place, where they lay quite still for a long time, hardly daring to breathe.
Who acts: Mice, pastries · What happens: scurry, lay, dare, breathe · To what, where: great fear
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 (Mice, pastries), 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 fear | case |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fear | amod |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scurried | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mice | det |
| 5 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 scurried | nsubj |
| 6 | scurried | scurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 9 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | compound |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scurried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 lay | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 scurried | parataxis |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 still | advmod |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 lay | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 daring | punct |
| 22 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 23 daring | advmod |
| 23 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 lay | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 breathe | mark |
| 25 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 daring | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 scurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scurry | past | the Mice | great fear | to a hiding place | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 2 | lay | present | pastries = pastry | still; time | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dare | gerund | pastries = pastry not said here | hardly property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | breathe | to-infinitive | pastries = pastry not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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