The Aesop for Children, The Mice and the Weasels, sentence 9
Soon the Mouse line gave way before the attack and the whole army fled for cover.
Who acts: Mouse line, whole army · What happens: give, flee · To what, where: way
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 (Mouse line, whole 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 line | det |
| 3 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 line | compound |
| 4 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 attack | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 attack | det |
| 9 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fled | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 army | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 army | amod |
| 13 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fled | nsubj |
| 14 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 cover | case |
| 16 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Mouse line | way | before the attack | soon property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||
| 2 | flee | past | the whole army | for cover | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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