The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 10
It was nobody but the Barnyard Cock and the first one the little Mouse had ever seen.
Who acts: roar, first one · What happens: be, see · To what, where: nobody, little Mouse
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 (roar, first one), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 nobody | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nobody | cop |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 Cock | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Cock | det |
| 6 | Barnyard | Barnyard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Cock | compound |
| 7 | Cock | Cock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nobody | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 one | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Cock | appos |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mouse | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Mouse | amod |
| 14 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 seen | advmod |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 one | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nobody | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | roar | nobody | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect · passive | the first one not said here | the little Mouse | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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