The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 6
Very timidly at first they stuck out their heads and sniffed about carefully.
Who acts: ropes · What happens: stick out, sniff · To what, where: heads
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 (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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 timidly | advmod |
| 2 | timidly | timidly | ADV | _ | 6 stuck | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 first | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 stuck | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stuck | nsubj |
| 6 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 stuck | compound:prt |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heads | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stuck | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sniffed | cc |
| 11 | sniffed | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stuck | conj |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 carefully | advmod |
| 13 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 11 sniffed | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick out | past | ropes = rope | ropes's heads | timidly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent head=Theme at first=Destination | |||
| 2 | sniff | past | ropes = rope not said here | carefully property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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