Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 10
A Mouse ran over his mane and ears and woke him from his slumbers.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: run, wake, slumber · To what, where: mane, Mouse, slumbers
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Mouse | det |
| 2 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 mane | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mane | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ears | cc |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mane | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 woke | cc |
| 10 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 woke | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 slumbers | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 slumbers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | slumbers | slumber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 woke | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | a Mouse | Mouse's mane and ears | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mane=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | wake | past | a Mouse not said here | Mouse | Mouse's slumbers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | slumber | Mouse | nom slumber «state 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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