The Aesop for Children, The Mouse and the Weasel, sentence 2
He had to squeeze himself a good deal to get through the narrow opening between the strips of the basket.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: have, squeeze, get · To what, where: Mouse, narrow opening
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 (Mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:646): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 squeeze | mark |
| 4 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 squeeze | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 deal | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 deal | amod |
| 8 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 squeeze | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 squeeze | advcl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 opening | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 opening | det |
| 13 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 opening | amod |
| 14 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obl |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 strips | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 strips | det |
| 17 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 opening | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 basket | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 basket | det |
| 20 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strips | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Mouse | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | squeeze | to-infinitive | Mouse not said here | Mouse | a good deal obl:unmarked | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | Mouse not said here | the narrow opening between the strips of the basket | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through opening=Destination |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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