The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 22

The Ass did not dislike being carried, but so many people came up to point at him and laugh and shout, that he began to kick and bray, and then, just as they were crossing a bridge, the ropes that held him gave way, and down he tumbled into the river.

Who acts: Ass, many people, people, ropes, way · What happens: not dislike, carry, come up, point, laugh, shout · To what, where: bridge, Ass, way, river

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 (Ass, many people, people, ropes), 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 Ass	det
2	Ass	Ass	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dislike	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dislike	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 dislike	advmod
5	dislike	dislike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 carried	aux:pass
7	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dislike	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dislike	parataxis
14	up	up	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 point	mark
16	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 came	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 point	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 laugh	cc
20	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 point	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shout	cc
22	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 laugh	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 began	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shout	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 kick	mark
28	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bray	cc
30	bray	bray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 kick	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 gave	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 gave	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 crossing	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 crossing	punct
35	just	just	ADV	_	39 crossing	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 crossing	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 crossing	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 crossing	aux
39	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 gave	advcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 bridge	det
41	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 crossing	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 ropes	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ropes	det
44	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 gave	nsubj
45	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 held	nsubj
46	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 ropes	acl:relcl
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 held	obj
48	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dislike	parataxis
49	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 gave	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 tumbled	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 tumbled	cc
52	down	down	ADV	_	54 tumbled	advmod
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 tumbled	nsubj
54	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 gave	conj
55	into	into	ADP	_	57 river	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 river	det
57	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 tumbled	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dislike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dislike	past · do-support	the Ass					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	carry	gerund · passive	the Ass not said here					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»
3	come up	past	many people					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	point	to-infinitive	many people not said here				at Ass	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	laugh	infinitive	many people not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	shout speech: express	infinitive	many people not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	begin	past	Ass					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	kick	to-infinitive	Ass not said here					vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
9	bray	infinitive	Ass not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	cross	past · progressive	people	a bridge		then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient
11	hold	past	the ropes	Ass				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
12	give	past	the ropes	way				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
13	tumble	past	way		the river		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into river=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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