The Aesop for Children, The Ass and Its Shadow, sentence 1
A Traveler had hired an Ass to carry him to a distant part of the country.
What happens: hire, carry · To what, where: Traveler, him, distant part
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and Its Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Traveler | det |
| 2 | Traveler | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hired | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hired | aux |
| 4 | hired | hire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Ass | det |
| 6 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hired | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 carry | mark |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Ass | acl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carry | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 part | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 part | det |
| 12 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 part | amod |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 country | det |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 part | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | past · perfect · passive | a Traveler | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary ass=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | him = he | a distant part of the country | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to part=Destination |
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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