The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 14

"I am sure he was just about to speak to me when the monster I have told you about let out a screaming yell, and I ran for my life."

Who acts: Mouse, you · What happens: be, tell, let out, scream, run · To what, where: Mouse, monster, screaming yell · 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 (Mouse, you), 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	_	4 sure	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sure	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	cop
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 speak	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 speak	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 about	advmod
8	about	about	ADV	_	10 speak	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 speak	mark
10	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 speak	obl
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 told	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 monster	det
15	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj:pass
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 told	aux
18	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 let	advcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 let	nsubj
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 let	advmod
21	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 speak	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 let	compound:prt
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 yell	det
24	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 yell	amod
25	yell	yell	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 let	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ran	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ran	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 ran	nsubj
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 speak	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 life	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 life	nmod:poss
32	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ran	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Mouse			sure property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	past	Mouse		Mouse	about, speak property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the monster			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	let out in a quote	present	you	a screaming yell		about property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yell=Theme
5	scream speech: express in a quote	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	run in a quote	past	Mouse			for my life	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary

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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