The Aesop for Children, Belling the Cat, sentence 3

Indeed, something had to be done, for they lived in such constant fear of her claws that they hardly dared stir from their dens by night or day.

Who acts: something, Mice · What happens: have, do, live, dare, fear · To what, where: such constant fear, stir, dens, claws

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 (something, Mice), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 done	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 done	aux:pass
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 lived	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 fear	case
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fear	amod
14	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fear	amod
15	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 claws	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 claws	nmod:poss
18	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fear	nmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 dared	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dared	nsubj
21	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	22 dared	advmod
22	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lived	advcl
23	stir	stir	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dared	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 dens	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 dens	nmod:poss
26	dens	den	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 dared	obl
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 night	case
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dared	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 day	cc
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 night	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	something				indeed property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive · passive	something not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»
3	live	past	Mice = mouse		such constant fear of Cat's claws			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fear=Location
4	dare	past	Mice = mouse	stir	Mice's dens	night	hardly property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stir=Recipient
5	fear			Cat's claws				nom fear «feeling 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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