The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Load of Salt, sentence 5
Next day the Merchant went for another load of salt.
Who acts: Merchant · What happens: go
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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Merchant | det |
| 4 | Merchant | Merchant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 load | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 load | det |
| 8 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 salt | case |
| 10 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 load | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Merchant | day | for another load of salt | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for load=Beneficiary |
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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