The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 14
Thus at one swoop he had caught both meat and fish for his dinner.
What happens: catch · To what, where: Frog, one swoop
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: 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 caught | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 swoop | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 swoop | nummod |
| 4 | swoop | swoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | aux |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 9 meat | cc:preconj |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fish | cc |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meat | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 dinner | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meat | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | Frog | one swoop | thus property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary meat=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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