The Aesop for Children, Belling the Cat, sentence 6

"I have a plan that seems very simple, but I know it will be successful.

Who acts: last young Mouse, plan · What happens: have, seem, know, be · To what, where: plan · 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 (last young Mouse, plan), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plan	det
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 seems	nsubj
7	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plan	acl:relcl
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 simple	advmod
9	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seems	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 know	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 successful	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 successful	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 successful	cop
17	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 know	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	a last young Mouse = mouse	a plan		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
2	seem in a quote	present	a plan		simple property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	know in a quote	present	a last young Mouse = mouse			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	future	plan		successful property	tree rules

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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