The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 2
A timid little Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion's nose.
Who acts: timid little Mouse, Mouse · What happens: come, get away, run, fright · To what, where: fright
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 (timid little Mouse, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Mouse | det |
| 2 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Mouse | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Mouse | amod |
| 4 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | unexpectedly | unexpectedly | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ran | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fright | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fright | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 haste | cc |
| 15 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fright | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 haste | acl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fright | punct |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 21 | across | across | ADP | _ | 25 nose | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lion | det |
| 23 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 nose | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Lion | case |
| 25 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a timid little Mouse | upon Lion; unexpectedly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 2 | get away | to-infinitive | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run | past | a timid little Mouse not said here | Mouse's fright and haste | across the Lion's nose | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fright=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | fright | Mouse | nom fright «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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