The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 6

The Miller did not like to be laughed at, so he told his son to climb up and ride.

Who acts: Miller, foolishness · What happens: not like, laugh, tell, climb up, ride · To what, where: son · 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 (Miller, foolishness), 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	5 like	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 laughed	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 laughed	aux:pass
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 like	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	8 laughed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 told	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 son	nmod:poss
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 climb	mark
17	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 climb	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ride	cc
20	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 climb	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	the Miller		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	laugh not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the Miller not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»
3	tell speech: assert	past	foolishness	foolishness's son	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic
4	climb up not said to happen	to-infinitive	foolishness not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ride	infinitive	foolishness not said here		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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