The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 13

To the Cat it was almost as if he already had a plump young Mouse under his claws, when an old Rat, who had had much experience with Cats and traps, and had even lost a part of his tail to pay for it, sat up at a safe distance from a hole in the wall where he lived.

Who acts: Cat, had much experience, old Rat, Mouse · What happens: have, experience, lose, pay, sit up, live · To what, where: plump young Mouse, claws, part

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, had much experience, old Rat, 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 Cat	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cat	det
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 as	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 as	cop
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 as	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	3 Cat	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
10	already	already	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 as	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Mouse	det
13	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Mouse	amod
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Mouse	amod
15	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 claws	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 claws	nmod:poss
18	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Mouse	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 experience	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 experience	advmod
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Rat	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Rat	amod
23	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 experience	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	aux
27	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 experience	amod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 experience	amod
29	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Mouse	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 Cats	case
31	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 experience	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 traps	cc
33	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 Cats	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lost	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 lost	cc
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 lost	aux
37	even	even	ADV	_	38 lost	advmod
38	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 had	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 part	det
40	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lost	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 tail	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 tail	nmod:poss
43	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 part	nmod
44	to	to	PART	_	45 pay	mark
45	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 lost	advcl
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 pay	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 sat	punct
49	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 lost	advcl
50	up	up	ADP	_	49 sat	compound:prt
51	at	at	ADP	_	54 distance	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 distance	det
53	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 distance	amod
54	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sat	obl
55	from	from	ADP	_	57 hole	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 hole	det
57	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 distance	nmod
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 wall	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 wall	det
60	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 hole	nmod
61	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	63 lived	advmod
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 lived	nsubj
63	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 wall	acl:relcl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Cat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Cat	a plump young Mouse and had much experience	Mouse's claws		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient
2	have	past · perfect	had much experience				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	experience		a old Rat			with Cats and traps	tree rules
4	lose	past · perfect	Cat not said here	a part of Mouse's tail			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality
5	pay	to-infinitive	Cat not said here			for bin	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
6	sit up	past	Cat not said here			at a safe distance from a hole in the wall	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location
7	live	past	Mouse				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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