The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Cat, sentence 11
This performance she went through several times, each time singeing her paw severely.
Who acts: Pussy, time · What happens: go, singe · To what, where: performance, paw
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pussy, time), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 performance | det |
| 2 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 performance | acl:relcl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 times | case |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 performance | appos |
| 11 | singeing | singe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 time | acl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 paw | nmod:poss |
| 13 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 singeing | obj |
| 14 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 11 singeing | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 performance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Pussy | this performance not said here | time | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location performance=Theme | |||
| 2 | singe | gerund | each time not said here | Pussy's paw | severely property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paw=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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