The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 20

The Miller and his Son quickly scrambled down, and a short time later, the market place was thrown into an uproar as the two came along carrying the Donkey slung from a pole.

Who acts: Miller, two, Donkey · What happens: scramble down, throw, come along, carry, sling · To what, where: market place, uproar, pole

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, two, Donkey), 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	7 scrambled	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Son	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Son	nmod:poss
5	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Miller	conj
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 scrambled	advmod
7	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 scrambled	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thrown	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thrown	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 later	obl:unmarked
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 thrown	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 later	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 place	det
17	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 place	compound
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thrown	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thrown	aux:pass
20	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 scrambled	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 uproar	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 uproar	det
23	uproar	uproar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thrown	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 came	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 two	det
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thrown	advcl
28	along	along	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 came	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Donkey	det
31	Donkey	Donkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 slung	nsubj
32	slung	sling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 carrying	ccomp
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 pole	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pole	det
35	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 slung	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 scrambled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scramble down	past	the Miller and way's Son			quickly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past · passive		the market place		into a uproar result; late property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into uproar=Result
3	come along	past	the two			along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	gerund	the two not said here				tree rules
5	sling	past	the Donkey		a pole		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from pole=Initial_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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