The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 5

The Mouse did not need much coaxing, for he was very anxious to see the world and everything in it.

Who acts: Mouse · What happens: not need, coax, be, see · To what, where: world

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), 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	5 need	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 coaxing	advmod
7	coaxing	coax	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 need	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 anxious	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 anxious	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 anxious	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 anxious	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 anxious	advmod
13	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 need	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 anxious	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 everything	cc
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 world	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 everything	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not need	past · do-support	the Mouse			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	coax not said to happen	gerund	the Mouse not said here			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Mouse		anxious property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	Mouse not said here	the world		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus

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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