The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 11

Rolling himself in flour until he was covered completely, he lay down in the flour bin, with one eye open for the Mice.

Who acts: Cat · What happens: roll, cover, lie down · To what, where: Cat, flour, flour bin

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	Rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 covered	csubj:pass
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Rolling	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 flour	case
4	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rolling	obl
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 covered	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 covered	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 covered	aux:pass
8	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	completely	completely	ADV	_	8 covered	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 covered	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 lay	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 bin	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bin	det
16	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bin	compound
17	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 open	punct
19	with	with	SCONJ	_	22 open	mark
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 eye	nummod
21	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 open	obl:unmarked
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lay	parataxis
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 Mice	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Mice	det
25	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 open	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund		Cat	flour		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in flour=Trajectory
2	cover	past · passive		Cat		completely property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
3	lie down	past	Cat		the flour bin	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bin=Location

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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