The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 11

Though the Miller was not tired, he made the boy get down and climbed up himself to ride, just to please the Merchants.

Who acts: Miller, man, boy · What happens: not be, make, get down, climb up, ride, please · To what, where: man, Merchants

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 (Miller, man, boy), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	6 tired	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Miller	det
3	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tired	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	nsubj
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 made	ccomp
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 climbed	cc
15	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 climbed	compound:prt
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 climbed	obl:unmarked
18	to	to	PART	_	19 ride	mark
19	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 climbed	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 please	punct
21	just	just	ADV	_	23 please	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 please	mark
23	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ride	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Merchants	det
25	Merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 please	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the Miller		tired property	tree rules
2	make	past	man			tree rules
3	get down	present	the boy		down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	climb up	past	man not said here	man		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ride	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	please	to-infinitive	man not said here	the Merchants		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus merchant=Experiencer

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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