The Aesop for Children, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, sentence 10

The unsuspecting pair did as they were told and in an instant the Cat had them both under her claws.

Who acts: unsuspecting pair, Cat · What happens: do, tell, have · To what, where: facts, instant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rabbit, the Weasel, 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 (unsuspecting pair, Cat), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pair	det
2	unsuspecting	unsuspecting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pair	amod
3	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 instant	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 instant	det
12	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Cat	det
14	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	obj
17	both	both	ADV	_	15 had	advmod
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 claws	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 claws	nmod:poss
20	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 both	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the unsuspecting pair				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		facts = fact			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	have	past	the Cat	facts = fact	a instant	both property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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