Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 64

A Cat, discovering this, made her way into it and began to catch and eat them one by one.

Who acts: Cat · What happens: discover, make, begin, catch, eat · To what, where: this, HOUSE, way, Cat

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 discovering	punct
4	discovering	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Cat	acl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 discovering	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Cat	punct
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl:unmarked
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 catch	mark
15	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eat	cc
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 catch	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eat	obj
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 eat	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 one	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	discover	gerund	a Cat not said here	this			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	make	past	a Cat	HOUSE	way	way obl:unmarked	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent she=Material into it=Product
3	begin	past	a Cat not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	catch	to-infinitive	a Cat not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	eat	infinitive	a Cat not said here	Cat		one by one obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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