Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 65
Fearing for their lives, the Mice kept themselves close in their holes.
Who acts: Mice · What happens: fear, keep · To what, where: Mice
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 (Mice), 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 | Fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 kept | advcl |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 lives | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 lives | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fearing | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fearing | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mice | det |
| 7 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kept | nsubj |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 kept | obj |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kept | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 holes | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 holes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 close | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | gerund | the Mice not said here | for Cat's lives | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for life=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | the Mice | Mice = mouse | close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
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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