Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 21
The Country Mouse was easily persuaded, and returned to town with his friend.
What happens: persuade, return · To what, where: Country Mouse
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mouse | det |
| 2 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mouse | compound |
| 3 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 persuaded | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 5 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 6 persuaded | advmod |
| 6 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 returned | cc |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 persuaded | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 friend | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 town | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 persuaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | past · passive | the Country Mouse | easily property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | return | past | to town with luxury's friend result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result |
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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