The Aesop for Children, The Mouse and the Weasel, sentence 1
A little hungry Mouse found his way one day into a basket of corn.
Who acts: little hungry Mouse · What happens: find · To what, where: way, basket
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mouse and the Weasel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little hungry 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Mouse | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Mouse | amod |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Mouse | amod |
| 4 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 day | nummod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 basket | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 basket | det |
| 12 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 corn | case |
| 14 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 basket | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | a little hungry Mouse | Mouse's way | a basket of corn | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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