The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 2
For lunch the Country Mouse served wheat stalks, roots, and acorns, with a dash of cold water for drink.
Who acts: Country Mouse · What happens: serve · To what, where: wheat stalks
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), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 lunch | case |
| 2 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 served | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mouse | det |
| 4 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mouse | compound |
| 5 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 served | nsubj |
| 6 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stalks | compound |
| 8 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 served | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 roots | punct |
| 10 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stalks | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 acorns | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 acorns | cc |
| 13 | acorns | acorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stalks | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dash | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 dash | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dash | det |
| 17 | dash | dash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 served | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 water | amod |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dash | nmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 drink | case |
| 22 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dash | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | the Country Mouse | wheat stalks and roots and acorns | for lunch; with a dash of cold water for drink | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent stalk=Theme for lunch=Recipient |
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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