The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 10
Get down, and let the old man ride."
Who acts: you · What happens: get down, let · To what, where: old man ride
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 (you), 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Get | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 let | cc |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ride | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ride | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ride | compound |
| 9 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | imperative | you not said here | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | the old man ride | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=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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