Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 97

The Mice thought that the cause of their frequent defeats was that they had no leaders set apart from the general army to command them, and that they were exposed to dangers from lack of discipline.

Who acts: Mice, cause · What happens: think, be, set apart, command, expose, cause · To what, where: cause, general army, Mice, dangers, lack, frequent defeats · 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, cause), 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 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 set	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cause	det
6	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 defeats	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 defeats	nmod:poss
9	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 defeats	amod
10	defeats	defeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cause	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cause	acl
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 leaders	det
16	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	ccomp
18	apart	apart	ADV	_	17 set	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 army	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 army	det
21	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 army	amod
22	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 command	mark
24	command	command	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 set	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 command	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 exposed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 exposed	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 exposed	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 exposed	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 exposed	aux:pass
31	exposed	expose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thought	ccomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 dangers	case
33	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 exposed	obl
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 lack	case
35	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 exposed	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 discipline	case
37	discipline	discipline	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lack	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Mice					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is	past	Mice = mouse	the cause of Mice's frequent defeats not said here			have property	tree rules
3	set apart	past	the cause of Mice's frequent defeats			the general army	apart property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	command	to-infinitive	the cause of Mice's frequent defeats not said here	Mice = mouse				vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
5	expose	past · passive		Mice = mouse	dangers	lack of discipline		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to danger=Recipient
6	cause			Mice's frequent defeats				nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
7	defeat		Mice = mouse					nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent
8	lack			discipline				nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient

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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