The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 12

Sure enough, the Mice soon began to come out.

Who acts: Mice · What happens: begin, come out

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 (Mice), 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	Sure	sure	ADV	_	7 began	advmod
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Sure	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sure	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mice	det
5	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 began	nsubj
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 Mice	advmod
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 come	mark
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Mice					sure property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	come out	to-infinitive	the Mice not said here					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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