The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 4

"Spare me!" begged the poor Mouse. "

Who acts: poor Mouse · What happens: spare, beg · To what, where: poor Mouse · 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 (poor 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Spare	punct
2	Spare	spare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 begged	parataxis
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Spare	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Spare	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Spare	punct
6	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mouse	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Mouse	amod
9	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begged	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 begged	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare in a quote	infinitive		the poor Mouse = mouse					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset
2	beg speech: request	past	the poor Mouse						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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