Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 28
A Mouse, supposing him to be food, leaped upon him, and was instantly caught and squeezed to death.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: suppose, be, leap, catch, squeeze · To what, where: Acquaintance, food
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 (Mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg21:965): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Mouse | det |
| 2 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaped | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 supposing | punct |
| 4 | supposing | suppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 leaped | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 supposing | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 food | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 food | cop |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 supposing | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 supposing | punct |
| 10 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 leaped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 caught | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 caught | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 caught | aux:pass |
| 16 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 17 caught | advmod |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 leaped | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 squeezed | cc |
| 19 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 caught | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 squeezed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | gerund | a Mouse not said here | Acquaintance | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a Mouse not said here | food | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leap | past | a Mouse | upon Acquaintance | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | catch | past · passive | a Mouse not said here | instantly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 5 | squeeze | participle | a Mouse not said here | to death | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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