The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 3
As they walked along the highway some travelers laughed loudly at them.
Who acts: Miller, travelers · What happens: walk, laugh · To what, where: highway
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, travelers), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 walked | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laughed | advcl |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 highway | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 highway | det |
| 6 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 travelers | det |
| 8 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 laughed | nsubj |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 9 laughed | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 laughed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Miller | the highway | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along highway=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | some travelers | at Miller; loudly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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