The Aesop for Children, The Mouse and the Weasel, sentence 4
When at last he had succeeded, he gorged himself to bursting.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: succeed, gorge, burst · To what, where: last, Mouse
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.
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 succeeded | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 succeeded | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 succeeded | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 succeeded | aux |
| 6 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 gorged | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 succeeded | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gorged | nsubj |
| 9 | gorged | gorge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 gorged | obj |
| 11 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 12 bursting | mark |
| 12 | bursting | burst | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 gorged | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gorged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past · perfect | Mouse | last | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gorge | past | Mouse | Mouse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burst | gerund | Mouse not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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