The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 9

And when the farmer put his shoulder to the wheel and urged on the horses, the wagon moved very readily, and soon the Farmer was riding along in great content and with a good lesson learned.

Who acts: farmer, wagon, riding · What happens: put, urge, move, ride along, learn · To what, where: shoulder, great content · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (farmer, wagon, riding), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 moved	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 put	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 moved	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shoulder	nmod:poss
7	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wheel	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wheel	det
10	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 urged	cc
12	urged	urge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 put	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 horses	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horses	det
15	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 urged	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wagon	det
18	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 moved	nsubj
19	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 readily	advmod
21	readily	readily	ADV	_	19 moved	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 riding	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 riding	cc
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 riding	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Farmer	det
26	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 riding	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 riding	aux
28	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 learned	csubj
29	along	along	ADV	_	28 riding	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 content	case
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 content	amod
32	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 riding	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 lesson	cc
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 lesson	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 lesson	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 lesson	amod
37	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 content	conj
38	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 moved	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	the farmer	Farmer's shoulder		to the wheel	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Goal
2	urge	participle	the farmer not said here			on the horses	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	move	past	the wagon			readily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	ride along	past · progressive	the Farmer		great content and a good lesson	along, soon property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	learn	past	riding				vn learn-14-1 «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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