The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 5
When the Mice peeped out and saw him in that position, they thought he had been hung up there in punishment for some misdeed.
Who acts: Mice, ropes · What happens: peep out, see, think, hang up · To what, where: Mouse, position, punishment · 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 (Mice, ropes), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 peeped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mice | det |
| 3 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 peeped | nsubj |
| 4 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 peeped | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 peeped | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 position | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 position | det |
| 11 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 peeped | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hung | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hung | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 hung | aux:pass |
| 18 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 hung | compound:prt |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 hung | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 punishment | case |
| 22 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hung | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 misdeed | case |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 misdeed | det |
| 25 | misdeed | misdeed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hung | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep out | past | the Mice | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the Mice not said here | Mouse | that position | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | ropes = rope | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hang up | past · perfect · passive | Mouse | punishment; there | for some misdeed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in punishment=Destination |
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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