The Aesop for Children, Belling the Cat, sentence 1

The Mice once called a meeting to decide on a plan to free themselves of their enemy, the Cat.

What happens: call, decide · To what, where: Mice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Belling the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Mice	det
2	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	nsubj:pass
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 called	advmod
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 meeting	det
6	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 decide	mark
8	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 meeting	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 plan	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plan	det
11	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 decide	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 free	mark
13	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plan	acl
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 free	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 enemy	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 enemy	nmod:poss
17	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 free	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Cat	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Cat	det
20	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 enemy	appos
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle · passive		the Mice				once property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	decide	to-infinitive						on a plan	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on plan=Topic

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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