The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 7

But he was generous and finally let the Mouse go.

Who acts: Lion, Mouse · What happens: be, let, go · To what, where: Mouse

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 generous	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 generous	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 generous	cop
4	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 let	cc
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 let	advmod
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 generous	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mouse	det
9	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	obj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 generous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Lion		generous property	tree rules
2	let	infinitive	Lion not said here	the Mouse	finally property	tree rules
3	go	infinitive	the Mouse not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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