The Aesop for Children, The Mice and the Weasels, sentence 3
In despair the Mice called a council, and there it was decided that the Mouse army was always beaten because it had no leaders.
Who acts: Mice, army · What happens: call, decide, beat, have · To what, where: council, despair, Mice, Mouse army, leaders · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mice, army), 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 | _ | 2 despair | case |
| 2 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mice | det |
| 4 | Mice | Mice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 council | det |
| 7 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 decided | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 decided | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 decided | expl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 decided | aux:pass |
| 13 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 called | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 beaten | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 army | det |
| 16 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 army | compound |
| 17 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beaten | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 beaten | aux:pass |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 beaten | advmod |
| 20 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 decided | advcl |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 had | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 beaten | advcl |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 leaders | det |
| 25 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | the Mice | a council | despair | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent council=Recipient | |||
| 2 | decide | past · passive | Mice | there | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | beat | past · passive | the Mouse army | always property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | army | no leaders | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=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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