The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Load of Salt, sentence 7
The angry Merchant immediately turned about and drove the Ass back to the seashore, where he loaded him with two great baskets of sponges.
Who acts: angry Merchant, Merchant · What happens: turn about, drive back, load · To what, where: Ass, seashore
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 (angry Merchant, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Merchant | det |
| 2 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Merchant | amod |
| 3 | Merchant | Merchant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drove | cc |
| 8 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ass | det |
| 10 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drove | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 drove | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 seashore | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 seashore | det |
| 14 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drove | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 loaded | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 loaded | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 loaded | nsubj |
| 18 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seashore | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 loaded | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 baskets | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 baskets | nummod |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 baskets | amod |
| 23 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 loaded | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sponges | case |
| 25 | sponges | sponge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 baskets | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn about | past | the angry Merchant | about, immediately property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drive back | past | the angry Merchant not said here | the Ass | the seashore | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ass=Theme to seashore=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | load | past | Merchant | Ass | with two great baskets of sponges | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with basket=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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