The Aesop for Children, The Mule, sentence 5
Next day he was put into harness again and that evening he was very downhearted indeed.
Who acts: Mule · What happens: put, be · To what, where: Mule, harness
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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux:pass |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 harness | case |
| 7 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 downhearted | cc |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 evening | det |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 downhearted | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 downhearted | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 downhearted | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 downhearted | advmod |
| 15 | downhearted | downhearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 put | conj |
| 16 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | Mule | harness | again; day | indeed property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||
| 2 | is | past | Mule | evening | downhearted property | 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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