Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 6
The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaiming:
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: recognize, come, gnaw, set, exclaim, roar · To what, where: roar, rope, Mouse
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mouse | det |
| 2 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 recognizing | punct |
| 4 | recognizing | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Mouse | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 roar | nmod:poss |
| 6 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recognizing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mouse | punct |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gnawed | cc |
| 10 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rope | det |
| 12 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gnawed | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 teeth | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gnawed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | obj |
| 20 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 set | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 exclaiming | punct |
| 22 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 set | advcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | gerund | the Mouse not said here | Mouse's roar | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roar=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Mouse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gnaw | past | the Mouse not said here | the rope | with Mouse's teeth | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient | |||
| 4 | set | infinitive | the Mouse not said here | Mouse | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result | |||
| 5 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | the Mouse not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | roar | Mouse | nom roar «event intransitive»: 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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