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The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 8

Finding his Master seated at the dinner table, he kicked up his heels and, with a loud bray, pranced giddily around the table, upsetting it as he did so.

Who acts: Master, Ass · What happens: find, seat, kick up, prance, upset, do · To what, where: dinner table, heels, loud bray, table

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 (Master, 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

nsubjnmod:possnsubjcasedetcompoundoblpunctnsubjconjcompound:prtnmod:possobjccpunctcasedetamodconjpunctacladvmodcasedetoblpunctadvclobjmarknsubjadvcladvmodpunctrootFindingVERBhisPRONMasterPROPNseatedVERBatADPtheDETdinnerNOUNtableNOUN,PUNCThePRONkickedVERBupADPhisPRONheelsNOUNandCCONJ,PUNCTwithADPaDETloudADJbrayNOUN,PUNCTprancedVERBgiddilyADVaroundADPtheDETtableNOUN,PUNCTupsettingVERBitPRONasSCONJhePRONdidVERBsoADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FindingfindVERBVerbForm=Ger4 seatednsubj
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 Masternmod:poss
3MasterMasterPROPNNumber=Sing4 seatednsubj
4seatedseatVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5atatADP_8 tablecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 tabledet
7dinnerdinnerNOUNNumber=Sing8 tablecompound
8tabletableNOUNNumber=Sing4 seatedobl
9,,PUNCT_11 kickedpunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 kickednsubj
11kickedkickVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 seatedconj
12upupADP_11 kickedcompound:prt
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 heelsnmod:poss
14heelsheelNOUNNumber=Plur11 kickedobj
15andandCCONJ_20 braycc
16,,PUNCT_20 braypunct
17withwithADP_20 braycase
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 braydet
19loudloudADJDegree=Pos20 brayamod
20braybrayNOUNNumber=Sing11 kickedconj
21,,PUNCT_22 prancedpunct
22prancedpranceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 brayacl
23giddilygiddilyADV_22 prancedadvmod
24aroundaroundADP_26 tablecase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 tabledet
26tabletableNOUNNumber=Sing22 prancedobl
27,,PUNCT_28 upsettingpunct
28upsettingupsetVERBVerbForm=Ger11 kickedadvcl
29ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 upsettingobj
30asasSCONJ_32 didmark
31hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 didnsubj
32diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 upsettingadvcl
33sosoADV_32 didadvmod
34..PUNCT_4 seatedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findgerundvn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2seatpastthe dinner tablevn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
3kick uppastMasterAss's heelsvn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent heel=Patient
4pranceparticiplea loud bray not said herethe tablegiddily propertyvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around table=Trajectory
5upsetgerundMaster not said heretablevn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
6dopastAssvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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