The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Cat, sentence 14
From that time on, they say, she contented herself with mice and rats and had little to do with Sir Monkey.
Who acts: chestnuts, master, little · What happens: say, content, have, do · To what, where: master, little · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (chestnuts, master, little), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 time | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 contented | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 contented | nsubj |
| 10 | contented | content | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | ccomp |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 contented | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 mice | case |
| 13 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 contented | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rats | cc |
| 15 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mice | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 contented | conj |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | xcomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Monkey | case |
| 22 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Monkey | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | chestnuts = chestnut | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | content | past | master | master | with mice and rats | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | have | past | master not said here | little | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | little not said here | with Monkey Sir | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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