Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 73
The Mouse peeped out, crept furtively up his flank, and again biting him, retreated to his hole.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: peep out, creep, bite, retreat · To what, where: flank, Bull, hole
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 (Mouse), 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 Mouse | det |
| 2 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 peeped | nsubj |
| 3 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 peeped | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 crept | punct |
| 6 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 peeped | conj |
| 7 | furtively | furtively | ADV | _ | 6 crept | advmod |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 flank | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 flank | nmod:poss |
| 10 | flank | flank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crept | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 biting | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 biting | cc |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 biting | advmod |
| 14 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 peeped | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 biting | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 retreated | punct |
| 17 | retreated | retreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 peeped | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 hole | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hole | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 retreated | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep out | past | the Mouse | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | creep | past | the Mouse not said here | Bull's flank | furtively property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up flank=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | bite | gerund | the Mouse not said here | Bull | again | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 4 | retreat | past | the Mouse not said here | Bull's hole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hole=Initial_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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