The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Cat, sentence 3

What they seemed to think of more than anything else was to get something to eat, and it did not matter much to them how they got it.

Who acts: Cat, it · What happens: seem, think, get, eat, not matter · To what, where: something, Cat, mischief

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 (Cat, it), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 seemed	obj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seemed	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 anything	case
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	9 anything	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 more	fixed
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 think	obl
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 anything	advmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 anything	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 was	advcl
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 get	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 something	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 matter	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 matter	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 matter	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 matter	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 matter	advmod
22	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	parataxis
23	much	much	ADV	_	25 them	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 matter	obl
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 got	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 got	nsubj
28	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 matter	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 got	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Cat				tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Cat not said here			of anything	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	to-infinitive	Cat not said here	something			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
4	eat	to-infinitive	Cat not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not matter	past · do-support	it		Cat		vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to they=Experiencer
6	get	past	Cat	mischief			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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