The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 7
They had gone a little farther along the road, when three merchants passed by.
Who acts: Miller · What happens: go, pass by · To what, where: road, three merchants
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | aux |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 farther | obl |
| 6 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 gone | advmod |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gone | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 merchants | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 merchants | advmod |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 merchants | nummod |
| 13 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 road | conj |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 merchants | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 passed | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Miller | the road and three merchants | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | pass by | participle | three merchants not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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