The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 9

There were sweetmeats and jellies, pastries, delicious cheeses, indeed, the most tempting foods that a Mouse can imagine.

Who acts: sweetmeats, Mouse · What happens: be, tempt, imagine · To what, where: tempting foods

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 (sweetmeats, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 jellies	cc
5	jellies	jelly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sweetmeats	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pastries	punct
7	pastries	pastry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sweetmeats	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cheeses	punct
9	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cheeses	amod
10	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sweetmeats	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cheeses	punct
12	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 were	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 foods	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 foods	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 tempting	advmod
16	tempting	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 foods	amod
17	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 imagine	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Mouse	det
20	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 imagine	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 imagine	aux
22	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 foods	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	sweetmeats and jellies and pastries		there	indeed property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tempt	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	imagine	can	a Mouse	the tempting foods			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme

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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