The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 12

When they saw the danger the Master was in from the clumsy beast, they set upon the Ass and drove him with kicks and blows back to the stable.

Who acts: servants, Master · What happens: see, be, set, drive, blow back · To what, where: danger, clumsy beast, Ass, Master, stable · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (servants, Master), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 danger	det
5	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Master	det
7	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 in	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 in	cop
9	in	in	ADV	_	3 saw	ccomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 beast	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beast	det
12	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beast	amod
13	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 set	nsubj
16	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 Ass	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Ass	det
19	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drove	cc
21	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 drove	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 kicks	case
24	kicks	kick	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 drove	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 blows	cc
26	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 blows	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 stable	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stable	det
30	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blows	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	servants = servant	the danger		the clumsy beast		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus
2	is	past	the Master				in property	tree rules
3	set	present	servants = servant			the Ass		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon ass=Destination
4	drive	past	servants = servant not said here	Master			with kicks	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	blow back	present	servants = servant not said here		the stable			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to stable=Recipient

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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