Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 25

They had scarcely begun their repast again when someone else entered to take something out of a cupboard, whereupon the two Mice, more frightened than before, ran away and hid themselves.

Who acts: Mouse, someone · What happens: begin, enter, take, run away, hide · To what, where: repast, something, cupboard, 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: who acts (Mouse, someone), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begun	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begun	aux
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	4 begun	advmod
4	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 repast	nmod:poss
6	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begun	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 begun	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 entered	advmod
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 entered	nsubj
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 someone	advmod
11	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ran	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 entered	xcomp
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 take	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 cupboard	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 cupboard	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cupboard	det
18	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 frightened	punct
20	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	26 frightened	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Mice	det
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 Mice	nummod
23	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 frightened	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 frightened	punct
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 frightened	advmod
26	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cupboard	acl:relcl
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 before	case
28	before	before	ADV	_	26 frightened	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ran	punct
30	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begun	parataxis
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 ran	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hid	cc
33	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ran	conj
34	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 hid	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past · perfect	Mouse	Mouse's repast		again	scarcely property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repast=Eventuality
2	enter	past	someone					tree rules
3	take	to-infinitive	someone not said here	something	a cupboard			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent something=Theme out cupboard=Initial_Location
4	run away	past					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hide	past		Mouse				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

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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