The Aesop for Children, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, sentence 7
A wise old Cat heard the dispute and offered to settle it.
Who acts: wise old Cat · What happens: hear, offer, settle · To what, where: dispute
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 (wise old 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Cat | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Cat | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Cat | amod |
| 4 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dispute | det |
| 7 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 offered | cc |
| 9 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 heard | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 settle | mark |
| 11 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 offered | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 settle | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | a wise old Cat | the dispute | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dispute=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | offer | participle | a wise old Cat not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | settle not said to happen | to-infinitive | a wise old Cat not said here | dispute | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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