Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 18
A COUNTRY MOUSE invited a Town Mouse, an intimate friend, to pay him a visit and partake of his country fare.
Who acts: COUNTRY MOUSE · What happens: invite, pay, partake · To what, where: Town Mouse, disappointment
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (COUNTRY 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 MOUSE | det |
| 2 | COUNTRY | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 MOUSE | compound |
| 3 | MOUSE | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invited | nsubj |
| 4 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Mouse | det |
| 6 | Town | town | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Mouse | amod |
| 7 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invited | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 friend | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 friend | det |
| 10 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 friend | amod |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Mouse | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pay | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pay | mark |
| 14 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 invited | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pay | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 visit | det |
| 17 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pay | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 partake | cc |
| 19 | partake | partake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 pay | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fare | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fare | nmod:poss |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fare | compound |
| 23 | fare | fare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 partake | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | a COUNTRY MOUSE | a Town Mouse and a intimate friend | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | disappointment | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient visit=Asset | |||||
| 3 | partake | infinitive | of disappointment's country fare | tree rules |
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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