The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 18
They look more able to carry the poor creature, than he to carry them."
Who acts: Miller, crime · What happens: look, carry · To what, where: poor creature, Miller
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, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 able | advmod |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 look | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 carry | mark |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 creature | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 9 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 look | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Miller | able property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | Miller not said here | the poor creature | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | crime | Miller | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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