The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 14
Perched on the Ass, while that poor boy has to walk."
Who acts: poor boy · What happens: perch, have, walk · To what, where: Ass
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 (poor 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 | Perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 has | advcl |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 Ass | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ass | det |
| 4 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Perched | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 has | mark |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 boy | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boy | amod |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 walk | mark |
| 12 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 has | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch | participle | that poor boy not said here | the Ass | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ass=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | present | that poor boy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | walk | to-infinitive | that poor boy not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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