The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 13
As he looked at me he waved his fine long tail and smiled.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: look, wave, smile · To what, where: fine long tail
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), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 looked | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waved | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 waved | nsubj |
| 7 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tail | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tail | amod |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tail | amod |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waved | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 smiled | cc |
| 13 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waved | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Mouse | at me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wave | past | Mouse | Mouse's fine long tail | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 3 | smile | past | Mouse not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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