The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 19

"They must be on their way to sell the poor thing's hide," said another.

Who acts: Miller · What happens: be, sell, say · To what, where: way, hide, another · 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), 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	_	7 way	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 way	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 way	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 way	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sell	mark
9	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 way	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hide	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 thing	case
14	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sell	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 said	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is in a quote	must	Miller		Miller's way	tree rules
2	sell in a quote	to-infinitive		the poor thing's hide		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		another		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic

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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