Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 26
A WEASEL, inactive from age and infirmities, was not able to catch mice as he once did.
Who acts: WEASEL, Acquaintance · What happens: not be, catch, do · To what, where: mice
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WEASEL, Acquaintance), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 WEASEL | det |
| 2 | WEASEL | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 able | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 inactive | punct |
| 4 | inactive | inactive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 WEASEL | amod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 age | case |
| 6 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inactive | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 infirmities | cc |
| 8 | infirmities | infirmity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 age | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 WEASEL | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 able | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 able | advmod |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 catch | mark |
| 14 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 catch | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 did | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 did | advmod |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 catch | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | a WEASEL | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | a WEASEL not said here | mice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Acquaintance | once property | vn act-114-1 «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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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