The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 8
When they reached the mansion in which the Town Mouse lived, they found on the table in the dining room the leavings of a very fine banquet.
Who acts: friends, Town Mouse · What happens: reach, live, find · To what, where: mansion, table
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), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mansion | det |
| 5 | mansion | mansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Mouse | det |
| 9 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mouse | compound |
| 10 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mansion | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 table | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 table | det |
| 17 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 20 | dining | dining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 room | compound |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 leavings | det |
| 23 | leavings | leaving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 room | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 banquet | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 banquet | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 fine | advmod |
| 27 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 banquet | amod |
| 28 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leavings | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | friends = friend | the mansion | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mansion=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the Town Mouse | the mansion | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | friends = friend | the table | in the dining room the leavings of a fine banquet | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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