The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 1

A very young Mouse, who had never seen anything of the world, almost came to grief the very first time he ventured out.

Who acts: young Mouse, Mouse · What happens: not see, come, venture out · To what, where: anything, grief, first time

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Mouse, Mouse), 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 Mouse	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 young	advmod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Mouse	amod
4	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seen	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 seen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 seen	advmod
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 Mouse	acl:relcl
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 seen	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anything	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Mouse	punct
15	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 grief	case
18	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 first	advmod
21	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl:unmarked
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ventured	nsubj
24	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 time	acl:relcl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 ventured	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	a young Mouse	anything				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
2	come	past	a young Mouse		grief	time	almost property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grief=Initial_Location
3	venture out	past	Mouse	the first time not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent time=Topic

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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