The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 13

Seeing the body of the Mouse floating on the water, the Hawk swooped down, seized the Mouse and carried it off, with the Frog dangling from its leg.

Who acts: Hawk, Mouse, Frog · What happens: see, float, swoop down, seize, carry off, dangle · To what, where: body, water, Mouse, Hawk, leg

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 (Hawk, Mouse, 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 swooped	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 body	det
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Mouse	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mouse	det
6	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 body	nmod
7	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Mouse	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floating	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Hawk	det
13	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 swooped	nsubj
14	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 swooped	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seized	punct
17	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 swooped	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Mouse	det
19	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seized	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 carried	cc
21	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seized	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 carried	obj
23	off	off	ADP	_	21 carried	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Frog	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 Frog	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Frog	det
27	Frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	conj
28	dangling	dangle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 Frog	acl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 leg	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 leg	nmod:poss
31	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dangling	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 swooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	gerund	the Hawk not said here	the body of the Mouse		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus
2	float	gerund	the Mouse not said here		the water	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory
3	swoop down	past	the Hawk			tree rules
4	seize	past	the Hawk not said here	the Mouse		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
5	carry off	past	the Hawk not said here	Hawk		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	dangle	gerund	the Frog not said here		Hawk's leg	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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