The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 12

But before he could untie the reed that bound him to the dead Mouse, a Hawk came sailing over the pond.

Who acts: Frog, reed, Hawk · What happens: untie, bind, come, sail · To what, where: reed, Frog, pond

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 (Frog, reed, Hawk), 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	_	18 came	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 untie	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 untie	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 untie	aux
5	untie	untie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reed	det
7	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 untie	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bound	nsubj
9	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reed	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bound	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 Mouse	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Mouse	det
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Mouse	amod
14	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bound	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 untie	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Hawk	det
17	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 came	xcomp
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 pond	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pond	det
22	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sailing	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	untie	could	Frog	the reed			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reed=Patient
2	bind	past	the reed	Frog		to the dead Mouse	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Patient to mouse=Co-Patient
3	come	past	a Hawk				tree rules
4	sail	gerund	a Hawk not said here		the pond		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over pond=Trajectory

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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