The Aesop for Children, The Mule, sentence 1

A Mule had had a long rest and much good feeding.

Who acts: Mule · What happens: have · To what, where: long rest

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mule. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mule), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Mule	det
2	Mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rest	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rest	amod
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 feeding	cc
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 good	advmod
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feeding	amod
11	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rest	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · perfect	a Mule	a long rest and good feeding					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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