The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 4

"What foolishness," cried one, "to walk when they might as well ride.

Who acts: foolishness, Miller · What happens: foolishness, cry, walk, ride · To what, where: one · 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 (foolishness, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 foolishness	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 foolishness	nsubj
3	foolishness	foolishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 foolishness	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 foolishness	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walk	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 walk	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 walk	mark
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	conj
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 ride	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ride	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 ride	aux
15	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	17 ride	cc
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 as	fixed
17	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 walk	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	foolishness in a quote				tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	foolishness	one	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
3	walk in a quote	to-infinitive	foolishness not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ride in a quote	might	Miller		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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