The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 10
But his weight upset the chair, and Ass and man rolled over together in the pile of broken dishes from the table.
Who acts: weight, Ass · What happens: upset, roll over, break · To what, where: chair, pile
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Lap Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weight, Ass), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 upset | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 weight | nmod:poss |
| 3 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 upset | nsubj |
| 4 | upset | upset | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chair | det |
| 6 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 upset | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rolled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rolled | cc |
| 9 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rolled | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 man | cc |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Ass | conj |
| 12 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 upset | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 together | advmod |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 rolled | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 pile | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pile | det |
| 17 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rolled | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dishes | case |
| 19 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 dishes | amod |
| 20 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pile | nmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 table | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 table | det |
| 23 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dishes | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 upset | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | upset | past | Ass's weight | the chair | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus chair=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | roll over | past | Ass and man | the pile of broken dishes from the table | together property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pile=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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