The Aesop for Children, The Ass and Its Shadow, sentence 2
The owner of the Ass went with the Traveler, walking beside him to drive the Ass and point out the way.
Who acts: owner · What happens: go, walk, drive, point out · To what, where: Ass, way
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: who acts (owner), 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 owner | det |
| 2 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ass | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ass | det |
| 5 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 owner | nmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Traveler | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Traveler | det |
| 9 | Traveler | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walking | punct |
| 11 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 12 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walking | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 drive | mark |
| 15 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 walking | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Ass | det |
| 17 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drive | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 point | cc |
| 19 | point | point | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 drive | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 point | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 point | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the owner of the Ass | with the Traveler | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with traveler=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | the owner of the Ass not said here | beside Traveler | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside he=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive | the owner of the Ass not said here | the Ass | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme ass=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | point out | infinitive | the owner of the Ass not said here | the way | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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