The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 12
At the next turnstile they overtook some women carrying market baskets loaded with vegetables and other things to sell.
Who acts: Miller, women · What happens: overtake, carry, load, sell · To what, where: women, next turnstile, market baskets
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, women), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 turnstile | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 turnstile | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 turnstile | amod |
| 4 | turnstile | turnstile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overtook | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 overtook | nsubj |
| 6 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 women | det |
| 8 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 overtook | obj |
| 9 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 women | acl |
| 10 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 baskets | compound |
| 11 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carrying | obj |
| 12 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 baskets | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 vegetables | case |
| 14 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 loaded | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 things | cc |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 things | amod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 vegetables | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sell | mark |
| 19 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 things | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 overtook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | past | Miller | some women | the next turnstile | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry | gerund | some women not said here | market baskets | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | load | participle | market baskets not said here | with vegetables and other things | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with vegetable=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sell | to-infinitive | 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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