The Aesop for Children, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, sentence 2
But he forgot to latch the door of his house and while he was gone a Weasel walked in and calmly made himself at home.
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: forget, not latch, be, walk in, make · To what, where: door, Rabbit, home
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 (Rabbit), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 forgot | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forgot | nsubj |
| 3 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 latch | mark |
| 5 | latch | latch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forgot | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 latch | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 walked | cc |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 gone | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | cop |
| 15 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 walked | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Weasel | det |
| 17 | Weasel | Weasel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 18 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgot | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 walked | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 21 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 22 made | advmod |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 walked | conj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 home | case |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Rabbit | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not latch | to-infinitive | Rabbit not said here | the door of Rabbit's house | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Rabbit | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | walk in | past | Rabbit not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | past | Rabbit not said here | Rabbit | home | calmly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |
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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