The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 12
He had thick, velvety fur, a meek face, and a look that was very modest, though his eyes were bright and shining.
Who acts: Mouse, look, eyes · What happens: have, be, shine · To what, where: thick velvety fur
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 (Mouse, look, eyes), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fur | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thick | punct |
| 5 | velvety | velvety | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fur | amod |
| 6 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 face | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 face | det |
| 9 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 face | amod |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fur | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 look | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 look | det |
| 14 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fur | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 modest | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 modest | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 modest | advmod |
| 18 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 look | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bright | punct |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 bright | mark |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bright | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 bright | cop |
| 24 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 shining | cc |
| 26 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 bright | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Mouse | thick velvety fur and a meek face and a look | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a look | modest property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Mouse's eyes | bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | Mouse's eyes not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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