The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 1
One day, a long time ago, an old Miller and his Son were on their way to market with an Ass which they hoped to sell.
Who acts: One day, way · What happens: be, hope, sell · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, way), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 way | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | conj |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 time | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Miller | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Miller | amod |
| 11 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 way | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Son | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Miller | conj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 way | cop |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 market | mark |
| 20 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 way | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Ass | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Ass | det |
| 23 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 market | nmod |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 hoped | nsubj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hoped | nsubj |
| 26 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 way | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 sell | mark |
| 28 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 hoped | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One day and a long time | Miller's way | market with a Ass nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hope | past | Miller's way | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sell not said to happen | to-infinitive | Miller's way not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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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