The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 9

Now the Mice kept more strictly at home than ever.

Who acts: Mice · What happens: keep · To what, where: home

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), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 kept	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mice	det
3	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 strictly	advmod
6	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 kept	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the Mice			home	now	strictly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location

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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