The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 3

The Town Mouse ate very sparingly, nibbling a little of this and a little of that, and by her manner making it very plain that she ate the simple food only to be polite.

Who acts: Town Mouse, Mouse · What happens: eat, nibble, make, be · To what, where: little, manner, simple food

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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mouse	det
2	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mouse	compound
3	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 sparingly	advmod
6	sparingly	sparingly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ate	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nibbling	punct
8	nibbling	nibble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ate	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nibbling	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 this	case
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 little	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 little	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 little	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nibbling	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 little	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 making	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 making	cc
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 manner	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 manner	nmod:poss
22	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 making	obl
23	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ate	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 making	obj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 plain	advmod
26	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 making	xcomp
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 ate	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ate	nsubj
29	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 plain	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 food	det
31	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 food	amod
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ate	obj
33	only	only	ADV	_	36 polite	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	36 polite	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 polite	cop
36	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ate	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the Town Mouse		sparingly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	nibble	gerund	the Town Mouse not said here	a little of this		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
3	make	gerund	the Town Mouse not said here	manner	by Mouse's manner; plain property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	eat	past	Mouse	the simple food		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
5	is	to-infinitive	Mouse not said here		polite property	tree rules

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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