The Aesop for Children, The Mouse and the Weasel, sentence 3
But the corn was tempting and the Mouse was determined to get in.
Who acts: corn, Mouse · What happens: tempt, be, get in
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 (corn, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 tempting | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 corn | det |
| 3 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tempting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tempting | aux |
| 5 | tempting | tempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 determined | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mouse | det |
| 8 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 determined | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 determined | cop |
| 10 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tempting | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 determined | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tempting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tempt | past · progressive | the corn | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Mouse | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get in | to-infinitive | the Mouse not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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