The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 12

At last he became so heated that he pulled off his cloak, and, to escape the blazing sunshine, threw himself down in the welcome shade of a tree by the roadside.

Who acts: man · What happens: heat, pull off, escape, blaze, throw down, shade · To what, where: last, cloak, blazing sunshine, man, welcome shade, tree

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heated	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heated	aux:pass
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 heated	advmod
6	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 pulled	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pulled	nsubj
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heated	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 pulled	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cloak	nmod:poss
12	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulled	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 escape	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 escape	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 escape	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 escape	mark
17	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heated	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sunshine	det
19	blazing	blaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 sunshine	amod
20	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 escape	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 threw	punct
22	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 escape	conj
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 threw	obj
24	down	down	ADP	_	22 threw	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 shade	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shade	det
27	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shade	amod
28	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 threw	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 tree	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tree	det
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shade	nmod
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 roadside	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 roadside	det
34	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 threw	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	heat	past · passive			last		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»
2	pull off	past	man	man's cloak			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Eventuality
3	escape	to-infinitive		the blazing sunshine			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sunshine=Initial_Location
4	blaze	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	throw down	past		man	the welcome shade of a tree	by the roadside	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in shade=Destination
6	shade			a tree			nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient

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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