The Aesop for Children, The Ass and His Driver, sentence 4
"Very well," said his master, "go your way, you willful beast, and see where it leads you."
Who acts: master, you · What happens: say, go, beast, see, lead · To what, where: way, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (master, you), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beast | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 beast | nsubj |
| 16 | willful | willful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beast | amod |
| 17 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | conj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 leads | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 leads | nsubj |
| 23 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | ccomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 leads | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | way's master | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | your way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | beast in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | lead in a quote | present | master | you | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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