The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 8

Just then the Cat let go his hold, and before the Mice recovered from their surprise, he had made an end of three or four.

Who acts: Cat, Mice, ropes · What happens: let, go, recover, make, hold, surprise · To what, where: hold, surprise, end

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, 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 then	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 let	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cat	det
4	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hold	nmod:poss
8	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 recovered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 recovered	cc
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 recovered	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mice	det
13	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 recovered	nsubj
14	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 surprise	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 surprise	nmod:poss
17	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 recovered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	aux
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 let	parataxis
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 end	det
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 three	case
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 end	nmod
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 four	cc
27	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 three	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	let	past	the Cat			then	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the Cat not said here	Cat's hold			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hold=Theme
3	recover	past	the Mice		ropes's surprise		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from surprise=Source
4	make	past · perfect	Cat	a end of three			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Product
5	hold		Cat				nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	surprise		ropes = rope				nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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