The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 10

The Mouse soon had enough of it and wanted to return to shore; but the treacherous Frog had other plans.

Who acts: Mouse, treacherous Frog · What happens: have, want, return · To what, where: enough, other plans

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frog and the Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse, treacherous Frog), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mouse	det
2	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 enough	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 return	mark
11	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 shore	case
13	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 return	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Frog	det
17	treacherous	treacherous	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Frog	compound
18	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 plans	amod
21	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Mouse	enough of pond	soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient
2	want	past	the Mouse not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Mouse not said here		to shore result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shore=Result
4	have	past	the treacherous Frog	other plans		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient

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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