The Aesop for Children, The Ass and His Driver, sentence 5
With that he let go, and the foolish Ass tumbled head over heels down the mountain side.
Who acts: way, foolish Ass · What happens: let, go, tumble · To what, where: head, heels
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, foolish 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 let | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tumbled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tumbled | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ass | det |
| 9 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Ass | amod |
| 10 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tumbled | nsubj |
| 11 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | conj |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tumbled | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 heels | case |
| 14 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tumbled | obl |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 side | det |
| 17 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 side | compound |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tumbled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | way | with that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | way not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tumble | past | the foolish Ass | head | heels | down the mountain side | tree rules |
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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