The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 5
They then went to bed in a cozy nest in the hedgerow and slept in quiet and comfort until morning.
Who acts: friends · What happens: go, sleep · To what, where: cozy nest, quiet
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 nest | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 nest | det |
| 8 | cozy | cozy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nest | amod |
| 9 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hedgerow | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hedgerow | det |
| 12 | hedgerow | hedgerow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 slept | cc |
| 14 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 quiet | case |
| 16 | quiet | quiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slept | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 comfort | cc |
| 18 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 quiet | conj |
| 19 | until | until | ADP | _ | 20 morning | case |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slept | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | friends = friend | a cozy nest | then | to bed; in the hedgerow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | sleep | past | friends = friend not said here | quiet and comfort | morning | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in quiet=Location |
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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