The Aesop for Children, The Mice and the Weasels, sentence 10
The privates easily slipped into their holes, but the Mouse leaders could not squeeze through the narrow openings because of their head-dresses.
Who acts: privates, Mouse leaders · What happens: slip, not squeeze · To what, where: holes, narrow openings
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 (privates, Mouse leaders), 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 privates | det |
| 2 | privates | private | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 4 slipped | advmod |
| 4 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 holes | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 holes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 slipped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 squeeze | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 squeeze | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 leaders | det |
| 11 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaders | compound |
| 12 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 squeeze | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 squeeze | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 squeeze | advmod |
| 15 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 slipped | conj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 openings | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 openings | det |
| 18 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 openings | amod |
| 19 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 squeeze | obl |
| 20 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 25 dresses | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 because | fixed |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dresses | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 head | punct |
| 25 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 squeeze | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past | the privates | privates's holes | easily property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | not squeeze | could | the Mouse leaders | the narrow openings | because privates's head dresses | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through opening=Trajectory |
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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