The Aesop for Children, The Ass and His Driver, sentence 3

Just as he was about to leap over, his master caught him by the tail and tried to pull him back, but the stubborn Ass would not yield and pulled with all his might.

Who acts: way, master, stubborn Ass · What happens: be, leap over, catch, try, pull back, not yield · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and His Driver. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, master, stubborn Ass), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 about	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 about	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 about	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 leap	mark
7	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	over	over	ADV	_	7 leap	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 caught	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 master	nmod:poss
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caught	nsubj
12	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 caught	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 tail	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tail	det
16	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caught	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tried	cc
18	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 caught	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 pull	mark
20	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tried	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pull	obj
22	back	back	ADV	_	20 pull	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 yield	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 yield	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Ass	det
26	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Ass	amod
27	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 yield	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 yield	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 yield	advmod
30	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pulled	cc
32	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 yield	conj
33	with	with	SCONJ	_	36 might	mark
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 might	det:predet
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 might	nmod:poss
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 pulled	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	way		about property	tree rules
2	leap over	to-infinitive	way not said here		over property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	past	way's master	way	by the tail	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	try	past	way's master not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	pull back not said to happen	to-infinitive	way's master not said here	way		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
6	not yield	would	the stubborn Ass			vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	pull	participle	the stubborn Ass not said here			vn slide-11.2 «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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