The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 15

The Miller felt a bit vexed, but to be agreeable he told the Boy to climb up behind him.

Who acts: Miller, boy · What happens: feel, vex, be, tell, climb up · To what, where: bit, Boy · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Miller	det
2	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	obj
6	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bit	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 agreeable	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 agreeable	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	11 agreeable	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 agreeable	cop
11	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 agreeable	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Boy	det
15	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 told	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 climb	mark
17	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 climb	compound:prt
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 climb	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the Miller	a bit			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
2	vex	participle		a bit not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	to-infinitive	the Miller not said here			agreeable property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	boy		the Boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic
5	climb up not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here			behind boy	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory

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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