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The Aesop for Children, Belling the Cat, sentence 10

But in the midst of the rejoicing over their good fortune, an old Mouse arose and said:

Who acts: old Mouse · What happens: arise, say · To what, where: midst · 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: who acts (old 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

cccasedetoblcasedetnmodcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctdetamodnsubjccconjpunctrootButCCONJinADPtheDETmidstNOUNofADPtheDETrejoicingNOUNoverADPtheirPRONgoodADJfortuneNOUN,PUNCTanDEToldADJMouseNOUNaroseVERBandCCONJsaidVERB:PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_16 arosecc
2ininADP_4 midstcase
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 midstdet
4midstmidstNOUNNumber=Sing16 aroseobl
5ofofADP_7 rejoicingcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 rejoicingdet
7rejoicingrejoicingNOUNNumber=Sing4 midstnmod
8overoverADP_11 fortunecase
9theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 fortunenmod:poss
10goodgoodADJDegree=Pos11 fortuneamod
11fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing7 rejoicingnmod
12,,PUNCT_4 midstpunct
13anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 Mousedet
14oldoldADJDegree=Pos15 Mouseamod
15MousemouseNOUNNumber=Sing16 arosensubj
16aroseariseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
17andandCCONJ_18 saidcc
18saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 aroseconj
19::PUNCT_16 arosepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1arisepasta old Mousethe midst of the rejoicing over Mice's good fortunevn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location
2say speech: assertpasta old Mouse not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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