The Aesop for Children, The Ass Carrying the Image, sentence 4
With his head full of this foolish idea, he became so puffed up with pride and vanity that he halted and started to bray loudly.
Who acts: Ass · What happens: become, puff up, halt, start, bray · To what, where: vanity
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), 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 | _ | 3 head | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 became | obl |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 head | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 idea | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 idea | det |
| 7 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 idea | amod |
| 8 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 head | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 became | nsubj |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 puffed | advmod |
| 13 | puffed | puff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 became | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 puffed | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 pride | case |
| 16 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 puffed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 vanity | cc |
| 18 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pride | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 halted | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 halted | nsubj |
| 21 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 vanity | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 started | cc |
| 23 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 halted | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 bray | mark |
| 25 | bray | bray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 started | xcomp |
| 26 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 25 bray | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Ass | with Ass's head | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | puff up | participle | Ass not said here | with pride and vanity | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pride=Theme | ||||
| 3 | halt | past | Ass | vanity not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector vanity=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | start | past | Ass not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | bray | to-infinitive | Ass not said here | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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