The Aesop for Children, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, sentence 3
When the Rabbit returned, there was the Weasel's nose sticking out of the Rabbit's own doorway, sniffing the fine air.
Who acts: Rabbit, nose · What happens: return, be, stick out, sniff · To what, where: nose, own doorway, fine air
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, nose), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rabbit | det |
| 3 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 was | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nose | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Weasel | det |
| 9 | Weasel | Weasel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 nose | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Weasel | case |
| 11 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 nose | acl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 doorway | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 doorway | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Rabbit | det |
| 16 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 doorway | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Rabbit | case |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 doorway | amod |
| 19 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sticking | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sniffing | punct |
| 21 | sniffing | sniff | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 sticking | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 23 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 air | amod |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sniffing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 nose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the Rabbit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Weasel's nose | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stick out | gerund | the Weasel's nose not said here | the Rabbit's own doorway | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent doorway=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sniff | gerund | the Weasel's nose not said here | the fine air | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
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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