The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 7
But as nothing stirred, all trooped joyfully out to celebrate the death of the Cat.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: stir, troop, celebrate, die · To what, where: nothing, death
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 trooped | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 stirred | mark |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 stirred | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 trooped | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stirred | punct |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 trooped | advmod |
| 7 | trooped | troop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 9 out | advmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 trooped | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 celebrate | mark |
| 11 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 trooped | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 death | det |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 celebrate | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Cat | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Cat | det |
| 16 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 death | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 trooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir | participle · passive | nothing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | troop | past | all, out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | celebrate | to-infinitive | the death of the Cat | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die | the Cat | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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