The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 11

"If it had not been for that terrible monster," the Mouse went on, "I should have made the acquaintance of the pretty creature, who looked so good and gentle.

Who acts: roar, Mouse, pretty creature · What happens: not be, go on, make, look, acquaint · To what, where: Mouse, pretty creature · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Mouse, pretty creature), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	10 monster	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 monster	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 monster	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 monster	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 monster	cop
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 monster	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 monster	det
9	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 monster	amod
10	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 monster	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Mouse	det
14	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	on	on	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj:pass
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 made	aux
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 went	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 acquaintance	det
24	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 creature	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 creature	det
27	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 creature	amod
28	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 acquaintance	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looked	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 looked	nsubj
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 creature	acl:relcl
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 good	advmod
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 looked	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 gentle	cc
35	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 good	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	roar		for that terrible monster	tree rules
2	go on	past	the Mouse			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	should · perfect · passive		Mouse		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary acquaintance=Product
4	look in a quote	past	the pretty creature		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	acquaint in a quote			the pretty creature		nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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