The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 23
The poor Miller now set out sadly for home.
What happens: set out · To what, where: poor 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: 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 | 3 Miller | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Miller | amod |
| 3 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 set | advmod |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle · passive | the poor Miller | now | for home; sadly property | tree rules |
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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