The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Load of Salt, sentence 3
And when the Merchant at last got him to his feet, much of the salt had melted away.
Who acts: Merchant · What happens: get, melt away · To what, where: him
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 (Merchant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 got | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Merchant | det |
| 4 | Merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 last | case |
| 6 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Merchant | nmod |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 much | punct |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 got | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 salt | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 salt | det |
| 16 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 melted | obl |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 melted | aux |
| 18 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 much | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 melted | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Merchant at last | him = he | to Merchant's feet | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | melt away | past · perfect | the Merchant at last not said here | of the salt; away property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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