The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 2

They drove him very slowly, for they thought they would have a better chance to sell him if they kept him in good condition.

Who acts: Miller · What happens: drive, think, have, sell, keep · To what, where: way, better chance, good condition · 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 slowly	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 drove	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	conj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 chance	det
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 chance	amod
15	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sell	mark
17	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 chance	acl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sell	iobj
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 kept	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kept	nsubj
21	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sell	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kept	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 condition	case
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 condition	amod
25	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kept	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	Miller	way			slowly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	Miller					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	would	Miller	a better chance				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
4	sell	to-infinitive	Miller not said here	a better chance not said here	way			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Miller	way		good condition		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in condition=Location

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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