The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 7
So the next day when the Town Mouse asked the Country Mouse to go home with her to the city, she gladly said yes.
Who acts: Town Mouse, Mouse · What happens: ask, go, say · To what, where: Country Mouse, city · 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 day | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 asked | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mouse | det |
| 7 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mouse | compound |
| 8 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mouse | det |
| 11 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mouse | compound |
| 12 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 city | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 city | det |
| 20 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 23 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 24 said | advmod |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 24 said | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Town Mouse | the Country Mouse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent mouse=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the city | with Mouse; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mouse | day | gladly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic |
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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