The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Cat, sentence 13
Now the master came in, and away scampered the rascals, Mistress Cat with a burnt paw and no chestnuts.
Who acts: master · What happens: come in, scamper · To what, where: rascals
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 (master), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 master | det |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scampered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scampered | cc |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 scampered | advmod |
| 9 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rascals | det |
| 11 | rascals | rascal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scampered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Cat | punct |
| 13 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Cat | compound |
| 14 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rascals | appos |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 paw | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 paw | det |
| 17 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 paw | amod |
| 18 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Cat | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 chestnuts | cc |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 chestnuts | det |
| 21 | chestnuts | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rascals | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the master | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scamper | participle | the master not said here | the rascals and no chestnuts | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rascal=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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