Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 87

Among the many plans suggested, the one that found most favour was the proposal to tie a bell to the neck of the Cat, so that the Mice, being warned by the sound of the tinkling, might run away and hide themselves in their holes at his approach.

Who acts: many plans, one, Cat · What happens: suggest, find, be, tie, warn, run away · To what, where: most favour, proposal, bell, Mice, holes · 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 (many plans, one, Cat), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	5 suggested	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plans	det
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plans	amod
4	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 suggested	nsubj
5	suggested	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 suggested	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proposal	nsubj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	acl:relcl
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 favour	amod
12	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 proposal	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 proposal	det
15	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suggested	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tie	mark
17	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 proposal	acl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bell	det
19	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tie	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 neck	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 neck	det
22	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tie	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Cat	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Cat	det
25	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 neck	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Mice	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 Mice	case
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Mice	det
30	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 suggested	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 warned	punct
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 warned	aux:pass
33	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 suggested	parataxis
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 sound	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sound	det
36	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 run	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 tinkling	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tinkling	det
39	tinkling	tinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sound	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 run	punct
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 run	aux
42	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 warned	ccomp
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 run	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 hide	cc
45	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 run	conj
46	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 hide	obj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 holes	case
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 holes	nmod:poss
49	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 hide	obl
50	at	at	ADP	_	52 approach	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 approach	nmod:poss
52	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hide	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 suggested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	past	the many plans			so the Mice	vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	the one	most favour			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic
3	is a	past	the one	the proposal			tree rules
4	tie	to-infinitive	the many plans not said here	a bell		to the neck of the Cat	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bell=Patient to neck=Co-Patient
5	warn speech: warn	gerund · passive					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic
6	run away	might				by the sound of the tinkling; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sound=Trajectory
7	hide	present		Mice = mouse	Mice's holes	at Cat's approach	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in hole=Location
8	approach		Cat				nom approach «act 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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