The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Load of Salt, sentence 4
Delighted to find how much lighter his burden had become, the Ass finished the journey very gayly.
Who acts: burden, Ass, Merchant · What happens: find, become, finish, burden · To what, where: journey
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 (burden, Ass, 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 | Delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 find | mark |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Delighted | advcl |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lighter | advmod |
| 6 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 find | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 burden | nmod:poss |
| 8 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 become | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 become | aux |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 lighter | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 finished | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Ass | det |
| 13 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 finished | nsubj |
| 14 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lighter | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 journey | det |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 finished | obj |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 gayly | advmod |
| 18 | gayly | gayly | ADV | _ | 14 finished | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | light property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | Merchant's burden | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | finish | past | the Ass | the journey | gayly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector journey=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | burden | Merchant | nom burden «cognition transitive»: 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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