The Aesop for Children, The Mice and the Weasels, sentence 1

The Weasels and the Mice were always up in arms against each other.

Who acts: Weasels · What happens: be · To what, where: arms

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mice and the Weasels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Weasels), 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 Weasels	det
2	Weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 up	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Mice	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mice	det
5	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Weasels	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 up	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 up	advmod
8	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 arms	case
10	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 up	obl
11	against	against	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 arms	nmod
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Weasels and the Mice			arms against each		always, up 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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