The Aesop for Children, Belling the Cat, sentence 2
At least they wished to find some way of knowing when she was coming, so they might have time to run away.
Who acts: Mice, way, Cat · What happens: wish, find, know, come, have, run away · To what, where: least, way · 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 (Mice, way, Cat), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 least | case |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 wished | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wished | xcomp |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 knowing | case |
| 10 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 coming | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 coming | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 coming | aux |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 knowing | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 have | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wished | conj |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 run | mark |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 time | acl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 run | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | Mice = mouse | least | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mice = mouse not said here | some way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know | gerund | some way not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come | past · progressive | Cat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | might | Mice = mouse | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | run away | to-infinitive | Mice = mouse not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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