Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 86

THE MICE summoned a council to decide how they might best devise means of warning themselves of the approach of their great enemy the Cat.

Who acts: MICE, great enemy · What happens: summon, decide, mean, warn, approach · To what, where: council, approach · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MICE, great enemy), 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 MICE	det
2	MICE	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 summoned	nsubj
3	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 council	det
5	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 summoned	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 decide	mark
7	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 summoned	advcl
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 means	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 means	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 devise	aux
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 devise	amod
12	devise	devise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 they	appos
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 decide	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 warning	case
15	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	obl
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	15 warning	nmod:unmarked
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 approach	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 approach	det
19	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 warning	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 enemy	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 enemy	nmod:poss
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 enemy	amod
23	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 approach	nmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Cat	det
25	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 enemy	appos
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	summon	past	the MICE	a council		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Recipient
2	decide	to-infinitive	the MICE not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mean	present	Mice = mouse		of warning Mice of the approach of Mice's great enemy	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	warn			the approach of Mice's great enemy		nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	approach		Mice's great enemy			nom approach «act intransitive»: of=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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