The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Load of Salt, sentence 8
At the ford the Ass again tumbled over; but when he had scrambled to his feet, it was a very disconsolate Ass that dragged himself homeward under a load ten times heavier than before.
Who acts: Ass, ford, disconsolate Ass · What happens: tumble over, scramble, be, drag · To what, where: ford, feet, disconsolate Ass, Ass, load
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 (Ass, ford, disconsolate Ass), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 ford | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ford | det |
| 3 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tumbled | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ass | det |
| 5 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tumbled | nsubj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 tumbled | advmod |
| 7 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 tumbled | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 scrambled | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 scrambled | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 scrambled | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 scrambled | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 scrambled | aux |
| 14 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 tumbled | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 feet | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 scrambled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ass | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 Ass | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Ass | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Ass | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 disconsolate | advmod |
| 23 | disconsolate | disconsolate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Ass | amod |
| 24 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scrambled | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 dragged | nsubj |
| 26 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Ass | acl:relcl |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 dragged | obj |
| 28 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dragged | obj |
| 29 | under | under | ADP | _ | 31 load | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 load | det |
| 31 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dragged | obl |
| 32 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 times | nummod |
| 33 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 heavier | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 dragged | parataxis |
| 35 | than | than | ADP | _ | 36 before | case |
| 36 | before | before | ADV | _ | 34 heavier | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tumble over | past | the Ass | the ford | again | over property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||
| 2 | scramble | past · perfect | Ass | Ass's feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | ford | a disconsolate Ass | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drag | past | a disconsolate Ass | Ass | a load | tree rules |
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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