The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 4

After the meal the friends had a long talk, or rather the Town Mouse talked about her life in the city while the Country Mouse listened.

Who acts: friends, Town Mouse, Country Mouse · What happens: have, talk, listen · To what, where: long talk, city

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 (friends, Town Mouse, 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 meal	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meal	det
3	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 friends	det
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 talk	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 talk	amod
9	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 talked	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 talked	cc
12	rather	rather	ADV	_	16 talked	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Mouse	det
14	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Mouse	compound
15	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 talked	nsubj
16	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 life	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 life	nmod:poss
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 talked	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 city	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 city	det
22	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 talked	obl
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 listened	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Mouse	det
25	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Mouse	compound
26	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 listened	nsubj
27	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 talked	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the friends	a long talk		after the meal		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient
2	talk	past	the Town Mouse		the city		about Mouse's life	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about life=Topic
3	listen	past	the Country Mouse					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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