The Aesop for Children, Belling the Cat, sentence 9

All the Mice were much surprised that they had not thought of such a plan before.

Who acts: Mice · What happens: be, not think · To what, where: Mice

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), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 Mice	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mice	det
3	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 surprised	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 surprised	advmod
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 thought	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 thought	advmod
11	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 surprised	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 plan	case
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 plan	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 plan	det
15	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	obl
16	before	before	ADV	_	15 plan	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all Mice					surprised property	tree rules
2	not think speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Mice = mouse				of such plan	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=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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