The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 10
The Mouse knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in the net.
Who acts: Mouse, Lion · What happens: know, find, struggle · To what, where: voice, Lion, net
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse, Lion), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mouse | det |
| 2 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 found | advmod |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 10 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | struggling | struggle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 found | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 net | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 net | det |
| 14 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struggling | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the Mouse | the voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the Mouse not said here | the Lion | quickly property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent lion=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | struggle | gerund | the Lion not said here | the net | vn battle-36.4 «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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