The Aesop for Children, The Ass and Its Shadow, sentence 4

So intense did the heat become, that the Traveler at last decided to stop for a rest, and as there was no other shade to be found, the Traveler sat down in the shadow of the Ass.

Who acts: heat, Traveler · What happens: become, decide, stop, be, find, sit down · To what, where: other shade, shadow, Ass · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (heat, Traveler), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 intense	advmod
2	intense	intense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 become	xcomp
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 become	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 heat	det
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 become	nsubj
6	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 decided	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 decided	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Traveler	det
10	Traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 decided	nsubj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Traveler	nmod
13	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 become	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 stop	mark
15	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 decided	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 rest	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 rest	det
18	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stop	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shade	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shade	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 was	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shade	cop
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 shade	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shade	amod
26	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 become	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	29 found	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 found	aux:pass
29	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 shade	acl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sat	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Traveler	det
32	Traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sat	nsubj
33	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 found	ccomp
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 sat	compound:prt
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 shadow	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 shadow	det
37	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sat	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 Ass	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Ass	det
40	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shadow	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past · do-support	the heat			intense property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	decide	past	the Traveler at last				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Traveler at last not said here			for a rest	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is a	past		no other shade			tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive · passive	the heat not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Theme
6	sit down	past	the Traveler		the shadow of the Ass		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shadow=Location
7	shadow			the Ass			nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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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