The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Cat, sentence 9
Then she tried it again, this time pulling a chestnut half out of the fire.
Who acts: Pussy · What happens: try, pull · To what, where: paw, chestnut, fire
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:492): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tried | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 tried | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulling | punct |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pulling | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tried | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chestnut | det |
| 11 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pulling | obj |
| 12 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 pulling | advmod |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pulling | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Pussy | paw | then; again | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | pull | gerund | Pussy not said here | a chestnut | the fire | time | half property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent chestnut=Theme out fire=Initial_Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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