The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 6
"Put your shoulder to the wheel, man, and urge on your horses.
Who acts: you · What happens: put, urge · To what, where: shoulder
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 (you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 2 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 4 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wheel | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wheel | det |
| 7 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wheel | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 urge | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 urge | cc |
| 12 | urge | urge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Put | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 horses | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horses | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 urge | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | imperative | you not said here | your shoulder | to the wheel | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Goal | |||
| 2 | urge in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | on your horses | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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