The Aesop for Children, The Mice and the Weasels, sentence 2
In every battle the Weasels carried off the victory, as well as a large number of the Mice, which they ate for dinner next day.
Who acts: Weasels · What happens: carry off, eat · To what, where: victory, battle, Mice
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 battle | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 battle | det |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Weasels | det |
| 5 | Weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carried | nsubj |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 victory | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 victory | det |
| 9 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 number | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 16 number | cc |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 number | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 number | amod |
| 16 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Mice | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Mice | det |
| 19 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 number | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ate | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 ate | obj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ate | nsubj |
| 23 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Mice | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 dinner | case |
| 25 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ate | obl |
| 26 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 day | amod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ate | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past | the Weasels | the victory | every battle | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent victory=Value in battle=Location | |||
| 2 | eat | past | Weasels = weasel | the Mice | day | for dinner | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
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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