The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 10

But the Cat, who was still hungry for Mice, knew more tricks than one.

Who acts: Cat · What happens: be, know · To what, where: more tricks

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Old Rat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 knew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cat	det
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knew	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hungry	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hungry	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	cop
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 hungry	advmod
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Cat	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 Mice	case
10	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hungry	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Mice	punct
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 tricks	amod
14	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 knew	obj
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 knew	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Cat				still	for Mice; hungry property	tree rules
2	know	past	the Cat	more tricks				than one	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus

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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