The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 9

Can you guess who it was that our young Mouse was trying to describe to his mother?

Who acts: you · What happens: guess, try, describe · 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 (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	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 guess	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 guess	nsubj
3	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 trying	nsubj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 trying	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 trying	aux
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 trying	mark
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Mouse	nmod:poss
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Mouse	amod
10	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trying	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 trying	aux
12	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 guess	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 describe	mark
14	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 trying	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mother	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 describe	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 guess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	guess	can	you		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try	past · progressive			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	describe not said to happen	to-infinitive		to kind's mother	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to mother=be'

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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