The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 4

One of them had a very kind and gracious look, but the other was the most fearful monster you can imagine.

Who acts: One, kind, other, you · What happens: have, look, be, imagine · To what, where: fearful monster

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 (One, kind, other, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 had	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kind	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 kind	advmod
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 look	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gracious	cc
9	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kind	conj
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 monster	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 monster	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 monster	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 monster	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 monster	det
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 fearful	advmod
18	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 monster	amod
19	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 imagine	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 imagine	aux
22	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 monster	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	One of creatures		tree rules
2	look	present	a kind		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	past	the other	the fearful monster	tree rules
4	imagine	can	you	the fearful monster not said here	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot monster=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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