The Aesop for Children, The Ass Carrying the Image, sentence 5

But in the midst of his song, his driver guessed what the Ass had got into his head, and began to beat him unmercifully with a stick.

Who acts: driver, Ass · What happens: guess, get, begin, beat, sing · To what, where: midst, head, Ass

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 (driver, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 guessed	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 midst	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 midst	det
4	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guessed	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 song	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 song	nmod:poss
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 midst	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 midst	punct
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 driver	nmod:poss
10	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guessed	nsubj
11	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 guessed	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Ass	det
14	Ass	Ass	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 got	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 got	aux
16	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 what	acl:relcl
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 began	cc
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 guessed	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 beat	mark
24	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 beat	obj
26	unmercifully	unmercifully	ADV	_	24 beat	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 stick	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 stick	det
29	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beat	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	guess	past	Ass's driver		the midst of Ass's song		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	get	past · perfect	the Ass		Ass's head		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into head=Destination
3	begin	past	Ass's driver not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	beat	to-infinitive	Ass's driver not said here	Ass		with a stick; unmercifully property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with stick=Instrument
5	sing		Ass				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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