The Aesop for Children, The Ass Carrying the Image, sentence 2
It was mounted on an Ass adorned with garlands and gorgeous trappings, and a grand procession of priests and pages followed it through the streets.
Who acts: grand procession, priests · What happens: mount, adorn, follow, proceed · To what, where: Image, Ass, streets
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: who acts (grand procession, priests), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | aux:pass |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Ass | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Ass | det |
| 6 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obl |
| 7 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Ass | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 garlands | case |
| 9 | garlands | garland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 adorned | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 trappings | cc |
| 11 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trappings | amod |
| 12 | trappings | trapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 garlands | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 followed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 followed | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 procession | det |
| 16 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 procession | amod |
| 17 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 followed | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 priests | case |
| 19 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 procession | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pages | cc |
| 21 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 priests | conj |
| 22 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 followed | obj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 streets | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 streets | det |
| 26 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 followed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past · passive | Image | a Ass | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on ass=Destination | ||||
| 2 | adorn | participle | a Ass not said here | with garlands and gorgeous trappings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with garland=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | a grand procession of priests and pages | Image | the streets | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme through street=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | proceed | priests and pages | nom procession «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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