The Aesop for Children, The Ass and Its Shadow, sentence 5
Now the heat had affected the Driver as much as it had the Traveler, and even more, for he had been walking.
Who acts: heat, Traveler · What happens: affect, have, walk · To what, where: heat, Traveler
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 affected | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heat | det |
| 3 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 affected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 affected | aux |
| 5 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Driver | det |
| 7 | Driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 affected | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Driver | amod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 much | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Traveler | det |
| 14 | Traveler | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 more | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 more | cc |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 affected | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 walking | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 walking | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 walking | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 walking | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 walking | aux |
| 24 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 affected | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 affected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | past · perfect · passive | the heat | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer driver=Result | ||||
| 2 | have | past | heat | the Traveler | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveler=Patient | ||||
| 3 | walk | past · perfect · progressive | Traveler | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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