The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 3
"I was strolling along very peaceably when, just as I turned the corner into the next yard, I saw two strange creatures.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: stroll, turn, see · To what, where: corner, two strange creatures
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 strolling | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 strolling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strolling | aux |
| 4 | strolling | stroll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 turned | advcl |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 strolling | advmod |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 peaceably | advmod |
| 7 | peaceably | peaceably | ADV | _ | 4 strolling | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 strolling | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 turned | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 turned | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 corner | det |
| 15 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 yard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 yard | det |
| 18 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 yard | amod |
| 19 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | conj |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 creatures | nummod |
| 24 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 creatures | amod |
| 25 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 saw | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroll in a quote | past · progressive | Mouse | along, peaceably property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn in a quote | past | Mouse | the corner | into the next yard | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent corner=Theme into yard=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | Mouse | two strange creatures | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus |
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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