Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 11
He rose up and shook himself in great wrath, and searched every corner of his den to find the Mouse.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: rise up, shake, search, find · To what, where: Mouse, great wrath, corner
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 rose | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shook | cc |
| 5 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 shook | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wrath | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wrath | amod |
| 9 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 searched | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 searched | cc |
| 12 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 corner | det |
| 14 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 searched | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 den | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 den | nmod:poss |
| 17 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 corner | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 searched | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Mouse | det |
| 21 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | Mouse | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shake | past | Mouse not said here | Mouse | great wrath | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in wrath=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | search | past | Mouse not said here | every corner of Mouse's den | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Location | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | Mouse not said here | the Mouse | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic |
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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