The Aesop for Children, The Ass and Its Shadow, sentence 6

Wishing also to rest in the shade cast by the Ass, he began to quarrel with the Traveler, saying he had hired the Ass and not the shadow it cast.

Who acts: Traveler, Ass · What happens: wish, rest, cast, begin, quarrel, say · To what, where: shade, Ass, shadow · 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 (Traveler, Ass), 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	Wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 began	advcl
2	also	also	ADV	_	4 rest	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 rest	mark
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wishing	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 shade	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shade	det
7	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rest	obl
8	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 shade	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 Ass	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ass	det
11	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cast	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wishing	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 quarrel	mark
16	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 Traveler	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Traveler	det
19	Traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 quarrel	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 began	advcl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hired	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hired	aux
24	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 saying	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Ass	det
26	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hired	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shadow	cc
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 shadow	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shadow	det
30	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Ass	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cast	nsubj
32	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 shadow	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	gerund	Traveler not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	rest not said to happen	to-infinitive	Traveler not said here		the shade		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location
3	cast	participle		the shade not said here		by the Ass	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by ass=Destination
4	begin	past	Traveler				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	quarrel	to-infinitive	Traveler not said here			with the Traveler	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with traveler=Co-Agent
6	say speech: assert	gerund	Traveler not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	hire	past · perfect	Traveler	the Ass and the shadow			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme
8	cast	past	Ass	the shadow not said here			vn build-26.1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material shadow=Product

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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