The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 6
In her sleep the Country Mouse dreamed she was a Town Mouse with all the luxuries and delights of city life that her friend had described for her.
Who acts: Country Mouse, Mouse, city life · What happens: dream, be, describe, sleep, delight · To what, where: sleep, Town Mouse, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Mouse, city life), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 sleep | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dreamed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mouse | det |
| 5 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mouse | compound |
| 6 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dreamed | nsubj |
| 7 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Mouse | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Mouse | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Mouse | det |
| 11 | Town | town | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Mouse | amod |
| 12 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dreamed | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 luxuries | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 luxuries | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 luxuries | det |
| 16 | luxuries | luxury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Mouse | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 delights | cc |
| 18 | delights | delight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 luxuries | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 20 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 life | compound |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 delights | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 described | mark |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friend | nmod:poss |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 described | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 described | aux |
| 26 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dreamed | advcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 described | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | the Country Mouse | Mouse's sleep | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Mouse | a Town Mouse | with all luxuries and delights of city life | tree rules | |||
| 3 | describe | past · perfect · passive | Mouse's friend | for Mouse | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sleep | Mouse | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | delight | city life | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=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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