The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 4

So one day he climbed up on a shelf and hung from it, head downward, as if he were dead, holding himself up by clinging to some ropes with one paw.

Who acts: Cat · What happens: climb up, hang, be, hold up, cling · To what, where: shelf, head, Cat

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	So	so	ADV	_	5 climbed	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 climbed	nsubj
5	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 climbed	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 shelf	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shelf	det
9	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hung	cc
11	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hung	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 head	punct
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hung	obl
16	downward	downward	ADV	_	11 hung	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dead	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 dead	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 dead	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dead	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dead	cop
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hung	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 holding	punct
24	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 hung	advcl
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 holding	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 holding	compound:prt
27	by	by	SCONJ	_	28 clinging	mark
28	clinging	cling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 holding	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 ropes	case
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 ropes	det
31	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 clinging	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 paw	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 paw	nummod
34	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clinging	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	Cat		a shelf	day		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shelf=Trajectory
2	hang	past	Cat not said here	head	shelf		downward property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Cat				dead property	tree rules
4	hold up	gerund	Cat not said here	Cat				vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme
5	cling	gerund	Cat not said here				to some ropes; with one paw	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to rope=Co-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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