The Aesop for Children, The Ass Carrying the Image, sentence 3

As the Ass walked along, the people bowed their heads reverently or fell on their knees, and the Ass thought the honor was being paid to himself.

Who acts: Ass, people · What happens: walk, bow, fall, think, pay · To what, where: heads, knees, honor, Ass · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ass, people), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 Ass	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Ass	det
3	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	along	along	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bowed	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bowed	nsubj
9	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	parataxis
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 heads	nmod:poss
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bowed	obj
12	reverently	reverently	ADV	_	9 bowed	advmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bowed	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 knees	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 knees	nmod:poss
17	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thought	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Ass	det
21	Ass	Ass	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 honor	det
24	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 paid	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 paid	aux:pass
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 paid	aux:pass
27	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 thought	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 himself	case
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 paid	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the Ass				along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bow	past	the people	people's heads			reverently property	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
3	fall	past	the people not said here			people's knees		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
4	think speech: other	past	the Ass					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	pay	past · passive		the honor	Ass			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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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