Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 88

But when the Mice further debated who among them should thus “bell the Cat,” there was no one found to do it.

Who acts: Mice, one · What happens: debate, bell, be, find, do · To what, where: Cat, one, bell

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, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 debated	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 debated	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mice	det
4	Mice	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 debated	nsubj
5	further	further	ADV	_	6 debated	advmod
6	debated	debate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 bell	nsubj
8	among	among	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 who	obl
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bell	aux
11	thus	thus	ADV	_	13 bell	advmod
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 bell	punct
13	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 debated	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Cat	det
15	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 debated	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 debated	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 debated	punct
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 debated	conj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 was	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 one	acl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 found	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 debated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	debate	participle	the Mice	the Cat		further property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Co-Agent
2	bell in a quote	should				thus property	tree rules
3	be	past	no one		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	participle		no one not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do	to-infinitive	no one not said here	bell			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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