Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 68

One of the Mice, peeping stealthily out, saw her and said, “Ah, my good madam, even though you should turn into a meal-bag, we will not come near you.”

Who acts: Mice, One, you, we · What happens: peep, see, say, turn, not come · To what, where: HOUSE, meal bag · Speech: someone speaks here

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, One, you, we), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 saw	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Mice	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mice	det
4	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Mice	punct
6	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 Mice	acl
7	stealthily	stealthily	ADV	_	8 out	advmod
8	out	out	ADV	_	6 peeping	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 madam	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 madam	punct
16	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	20 madam	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Ah	punct
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 madam	nmod:poss
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 madam	amod
20	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turn	punct
22	even	even	ADV	_	26 turn	advmod
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 turn	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 turn	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 turn	aux
26	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
27	into	into	ADP	_	31 bag	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bag	det
29	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bag	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 meal	punct
31	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turn	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 come	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 come	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 come	advmod
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 turn	conj
37	near	near	ADP	_	38 you	case
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 come	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 turn	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	peep	gerund	the Mice not said here			out property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	One of the Mice	HOUSE			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	One of the Mice not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	turn in a quote	should	you		a meal bag		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into bag=Trajectory
5	not come in a quote	future	we			near you	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near you=Location

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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