The Aesop for Children, The Rat and the Elephant, sentence 16

But just then the royal Cat spied him, and the next instant, the Rat knew he was _not_ quite so important as an Elephant.

Who acts: royal Cat, next instant, Rat · What happens: spy, know, not be · To what, where: pride

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rat and the Elephant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (royal Cat, next instant, Rat), 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	_	7 spied	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	7 spied	advmod
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 spied	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Cat	det
5	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Cat	amod
6	Cat	Cat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 spied	nsubj
7	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spied	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 knew	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 instant	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 instant	amod
13	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knew	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 instant	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Rat	det
16	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spied	parataxis
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 important	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 important	cop
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 important	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 important	advmod
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 important	punct
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 important	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 important	advmod
25	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 knew	ccomp
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 Elephant	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 Elephant	det
28	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 important	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spy	past	the royal Cat	pride	then		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	know	past	the next instant				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not is	past	Rat			as a Elephant; important property	tree rules

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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