Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 24

Just as they were beginning to eat, someone opened the door, and they both ran off squeaking, as fast as they could, to a hole so narrow that two could only find room in it by squeezing.

Who acts: Mouse, someone, two · What happens: begin, eat, open, run off, squeak, find · To what, where: door, hole, room

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 (Mouse, someone, two), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 beginning	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 beginning	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beginning	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beginning	aux
5	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 opened	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 beginning	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beginning	punct
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 opened	nsubj
10	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opened	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ran	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ran	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ran	nsubj
16	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	17 ran	nsubj
17	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 opened	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 ran	compound:prt
19	squeaking	squeak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 ran	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fast	punct
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 fast	advmod
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 squeaking	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 could	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 could	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fast	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hole	punct
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 hole	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hole	det
29	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 squeaking	obl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 narrow	advmod
31	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hole	amod
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 find	mark
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 find	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 find	aux
35	only	only	ADV	_	36 find	advmod
36	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 hole	acl
37	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 find	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 room	nmod
40	by	by	SCONJ	_	41 squeezing	mark
41	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 find	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past · progressive	Mouse					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	Mouse not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	open	past	someone	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	run off	past	Mouse					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	squeak	gerund	Mouse not said here		a hole		fast property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hole=Recipient
6	find	could	two	room		room		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic
7	squeeze	gerund	two not said here					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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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