The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 8

He tied the Mouse's leg to his own with a tough reed.

Who acts: Frog · What happens: tie · To what, where: 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mouse	det
4	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 leg	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Mouse	case
6	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 own	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 own	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tied	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 reed	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 reed	det
12	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 reed	amod
13	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	Frog	the Mouse's leg				to Frog's own; with a tough reed	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent leg=Patient to own=Co-Patient with reed=Instrument

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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