The Aesop for Children, The Ass Carrying the Image, sentence 1
A sacred Image was being carried to the temple.
What happens: carry · To what, where: sacred Image, temple
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass Carrying the Image. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Image | det |
| 2 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Image | amod |
| 3 | Image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carried | aux:pass |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 carried | aux:pass |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 temple | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 temple | det |
| 9 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | a sacred Image | the temple | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to temple=Destination |
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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