The Aesop for Children, The Mice and the Weasels, sentence 6
Then after long preparation of the Mouse army in all the arts of war, they sent a challenge to the Weasels.
Who acts: arts · What happens: send, prepare · To what, where: challenge, Weasels, Mouse army
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 (arts), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 sent | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 preparation | case |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 preparation | amod |
| 4 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 army | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 army | det |
| 7 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 army | compound |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 preparation | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 arts | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 arts | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 arts | det |
| 12 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 army | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 war | case |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arts | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 preparation | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sent | nsubj |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 challenge | det |
| 19 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Weasels | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Weasels | det |
| 22 | Weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sent | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | arts = art | a challenge | the Weasels | after long preparation of the Mouse army in all arts of war; then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme to weasel=Destination | ||
| 2 | prepare | the Mouse army in all arts of war | nom preparation «act transitive»: of=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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