The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 3

At last the Mice kept so closely to their dens, that the Cat saw he would have to use his wits well to catch one.

Who acts: last Mice, Cat · What happens: keep, see, have, use, catch · To what, where: wits, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (last Mice, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Mice	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mice	det
4	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 closely	advmod
7	closely	closely	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 dens	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dens	nmod:poss
10	dens	den	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 saw	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Cat	det
14	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 saw	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 use	mark
20	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	xcomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wits	nmod:poss
22	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 use	obj
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 use	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 catch	mark
25	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 use	advcl
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 catch	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the last Mice		to claws's dens; closely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	the Cat			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	would	Cat			tree rules
4	use	to-infinitive	Cat not said here	Cat's wits	well property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient
5	catch	to-infinitive	Cat not said here	one		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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