The Aesop for Children, The Mice and the Weasels, sentence 8
They immediately attacked the Mouse army in large numbers.
Who acts: Weasels · What happens: attack · To what, where: Mouse army, large numbers
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 attacked | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 attacked | advmod |
| 3 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 army | det |
| 5 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 army | compound |
| 6 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attacked | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 numbers | case |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 numbers | amod |
| 9 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attacked | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | past | Weasels = weasel | the Mouse army | large numbers | immediately property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=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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