The Aesop for Children, The Mice and the Weasels, sentence 7
The Weasels accepted the challenge with eagerness, for they were always ready for a fight when a meal was in sight.
Who acts: Weasels, meal · What happens: accept, be · To what, where: challenge, sight
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, meal), 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 | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 challenge | det |
| 5 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 eagerness | case |
| 7 | eagerness | eagerness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ready | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 ready | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ready | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ready | cop |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 ready | advmod |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 accepted | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 fight | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fight | det |
| 16 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ready | obl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 sight | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 meal | det |
| 19 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sight | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sight | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sight | case |
| 22 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ready | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the Weasels | the challenge | with eagerness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Weasels = weasel | for a fight; always, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a meal | sight | 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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