The Aesop for Children, The Mouse and the Weasel, sentence 5

Indeed he became about three times as big around the middle as he was when he went in.

Who acts: Mouse · What happens: become, be

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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	3 became	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 three	advmod
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	obl:unmarked
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
9	around	around	ADP	_	11 middle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 middle	det
11	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 went	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	cop
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 went	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 big	advcl
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Mouse				time	big, indeed property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	Mouse					go property	tree rules

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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