The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 13
Now you see that even a Mouse can help a Lion."
Who acts: you, Mouse · What happens: see, help · To what, where: Lion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Mouse), 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 | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 help | mark |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 Mouse | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Mouse | det |
| 7 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 help | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 help | aux |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Lion | det |
| 11 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 help | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | help | can | a Mouse | a Lion | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Beneficiary |
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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