The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 15
"My son," said the Mother Mouse, "that gentle creature you saw was none other than the Cat.
Who acts: son, you, gentle creature · What happens: say, see, be · To what, where: Mother Mouse, gentle creature, none · 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 (son, you, gentle 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 | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mouse | det |
| 8 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Mouse | compound |
| 9 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 none | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 none | punct |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 creature | det |
| 13 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 creature | amod |
| 14 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 none | nsubj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 creature | acl:relcl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 none | cop |
| 18 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 said | ccomp |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 none | amod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 Cat | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Cat | det |
| 22 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 other | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My son | the Mother Mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | you | that gentle creature not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | that gentle creature | none | tree rules |
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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