The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 6
The Lion was much amused to think that a Mouse could ever help him.
Who acts: Lion, Mouse · What happens: be, think, 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 (Lion, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 amused | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amused | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 amused | advmod |
| 5 | amused | amused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 amused | csubj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 help | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Mouse | det |
| 10 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 help | advmod |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 think | ccomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 amused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Lion | amused property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | help | could | a Mouse | Lion | ever | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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