The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 6
But though he could swim a little, he did not dare risk going into the pond without some help.
Who acts: Mouse, risk · What happens: swim, not dare, go · To what, where: little, risk, 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 (Mouse, risk), 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 | _ | 5 swim | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 swim | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swim | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 swim | aux |
| 5 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 swim | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dare | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dare | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dare | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dare | advmod |
| 12 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 swim | conj |
| 13 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dare | obj |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 risk | acl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 pond | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pond | det |
| 17 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 help | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 help | det |
| 20 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dare | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | could | Mouse | a little | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme little=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not dare | past · do-support | Mouse | risk | without some help | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=Recipient | |||
| 3 | go | gerund | risk not said here | the pond | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into pond=Initial_Location |
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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