The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 2
The horses could hardly drag the load through the deep mud, and at last came to a standstill when one of the wheels sank to the hub in a rut.
Who acts: horses, one · What happens: drag, come, sink · To what, where: load, deep mud, last, rut
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, one), 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 horses | det |
| 2 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drag | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 drag | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 drag | advmod |
| 5 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 load | det |
| 7 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drag | obj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 mud | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mud | det |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mud | amod |
| 11 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drag | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 came | obl |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drag | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 standstill | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 standstill | det |
| 19 | standstill | standstill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 sank | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 sank | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wheels | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wheels | det |
| 24 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 hub | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hub | det |
| 28 | hub | hub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sank | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 rut | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 rut | det |
| 31 | rut | rut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sank | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drag | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | could | the horses | the load | the deep mud | hardly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | ||
| 2 | come | past | last | to a standstill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to standstill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sink | past | one of the wheels | a rut | to the hub | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient 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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