The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 12

When at last they ventured back to the feast, the door opened suddenly and in came the servants to clear the table, followed by the House Dog.

Who acts: pastries, door · What happens: venture back, open, come, clear, follow · To what, where: feast, last, servants, table

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 (pastries, door), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 ventured	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ventured	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ventured	nsubj
5	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 opened	advcl
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 ventured	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 feast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feast	det
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ventured	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ventured	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opened	nsubj
13	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 opened	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 came	case
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 opened	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 servants	det
19	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 clear	mark
21	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 came	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 table	det
23	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 clear	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 followed	punct
25	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 table	acl
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 Dog	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Dog	det
28	House	House	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Dog	compound
29	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 followed	obl:agent
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	venture back	past	pastries = pastry		the feast	last		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to feast=Recipient
2	open	past	the door				suddenly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the door not said here	the servants				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location servant=Theme
4	clear	to-infinitive	the door not said here	the table				vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent table=Source
5	follow	participle		the table not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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