The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Load of Salt, sentence 2
They had crossed this river many times before without accident, but this time the Ass slipped and fell when halfway over.
Who acts: They, time · What happens: cross, slip, fall · To what, where: river
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Load of Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They, time), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossed | aux |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obj |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crossed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 crossed | advmod |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 accident | case |
| 10 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slipped | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 slipped | cc |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slipped | nsubj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ass | det |
| 16 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 time | appos |
| 17 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossed | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fell | cc |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 slipped | conj |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 over | mark |
| 21 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 22 over | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 fell | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past · perfect | They | this river | time | without accident; before property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | ||
| 2 | slip | past | this time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | this time not said here | over property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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