The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 8

The moment he caught sight of me he opened his pointed mouth as if to swallow me, and then he let out a piercing roar that frightened me almost to death."

Who acts: kind, moment, piercing roar · What happens: catch, open, swallow, let out, frighten, sight · To what, where: sight, pointed mouth, me, piercing roar

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 (kind, moment, piercing roar), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 moment	acl:relcl
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sight	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 opened	nsubj
9	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouth	nmod:poss
11	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mouth	amod
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	obj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 swallow	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 swallow	mark
15	to	to	PART	_	16 swallow	mark
16	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 opened	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 swallow	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 let	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	nsubj
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 opened	advcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 let	compound:prt
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 roar	det
25	piercing	piercing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 roar	compound
26	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 let	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 frightened	nsubj
28	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 roar	acl:relcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 frightened	obj
30	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 death	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 death	case
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 frightened	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	kind	sight of me			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
2	open	past	the moment	kind's pointed mouth			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
3	swallow	to-infinitive	the moment not said here	me			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	let out	past	kind	a piercing roar	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme
5	frighten	past	a piercing roar	me		to death	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
6	sight			me			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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