Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 55

The Cat, quite forgetting her present condition, started up from the couch and pursued the mouse, wishing to eat it.

Who acts: Cat, Venus · What happens: forget, start up, pursue, wish, eat, condition · To what, where: present condition, couch, mouse

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat, Venus), 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	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 started	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 forgetting	punct
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 forgetting	advmod
5	forgetting	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Cat	acl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 condition	nmod:poss
7	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 condition	amod
8	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgetting	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Cat	punct
10	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 started	compound:prt
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 couch	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 couch	det
14	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 started	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pursued	cc
16	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 started	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mouse	det
18	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pursued	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wishing	punct
20	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 pursued	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 eat	mark
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wishing	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eat	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	forget	gerund	the Cat not said here	Venus's present condition		tree rules
2	start up	past	the Cat		the couch	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	pursue	past	the Cat not said here	the mouse		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
4	wish	gerund	the Cat not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Cat not said here	mouse		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	condition		Venus			nom condition «state transitive»: poss=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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