The Aesop for Children, The Mouse and the Weasel, sentence 8

So there he sat groaning and moaning, both from the discomfort inside him and his anxiety to escape from the basket.

Who acts: Mouse · What happens: sit, groan, moan, escape · To what, where: discomfort, 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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	2 there	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	groaning	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sat	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 moaning	cc
7	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 groaning	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 discomfort	punct
9	both	both	CCONJ	_	12 discomfort	cc:preconj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 discomfort	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 discomfort	det
12	discomfort	discomfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
13	inside	inside	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 discomfort	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 anxiety	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 anxiety	nmod:poss
17	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 him	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 escape	mark
19	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sat	advcl
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 basket	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 basket	det
22	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 escape	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	sit	past	Mouse	the discomfort inside corn; there	tree rules
2	groan	gerund	Mouse not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	moan	gerund	Mouse not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	escape	to-infinitive	Mouse not said here	the basket	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from basket=Initial_Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/8/