The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 17
"What a crime," cried one, "to load up a poor dumb beast like that!
Who acts: crime · What happens: crime, cry, load up · To what, where: one, poor dumb beast · 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 (crime), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 crime | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 crime | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crime | det |
| 4 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 crime | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 crime | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 load | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 load | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 load | mark |
| 12 | load | load | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 load | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 beast | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beast | amod |
| 16 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beast | amod |
| 17 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 load | obj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 that | case |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 beast | nmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crime in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a crime | one | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 3 | load up in a quote | to-infinitive | a crime not said here | a poor dumb beast | like that | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent beast=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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