The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 2
When the Frog saw the Mouse, he swam to the bank and croaked:
Who acts: Frog · What happens: see, swim, croak · To what, where: Mouse, bank
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Frog | det |
| 3 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 swam | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mouse | det |
| 6 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 swam | nsubj |
| 9 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bank | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bank | det |
| 12 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swam | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 croaked | cc |
| 14 | croaked | croak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 swam | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Frog | the Mouse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | swim | past | Frog | the bank | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bank=Destination | ||||
| 3 | croak | participle | Frog not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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