The Aesop for Children, The Two Pots, sentence 10

So the Earthen Pot at last consented, and the two set out side by side, jolting along on three stubby legs first to this side, then to that, and bumping into each other at every step.

Who acts: two · What happens: consent, set out, jolt, bump · To what, where: Earthen Pot, side, three stubby legs, each

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Pots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 consented	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pot	det
3	Earthen	Earthen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Pot	compound
4	Pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 consented	nsubj:pass
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Pot	nmod
7	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 set	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 two	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 set	nsubj
12	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 consented	parataxis
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 set	compound:prt
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 side	case
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 jolting	punct
18	jolting	jolt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 set	advcl
19	along	along	ADV	_	18 jolting	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 legs	case
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 legs	nummod
22	stubby	stubby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 legs	amod
23	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 jolting	obl
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 side	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 side	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 side	det
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 jolting	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 that	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 that	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 that	case
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 consented	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bumping	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bumping	cc
34	bumping	bump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 consented	advcl
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 each	case
36	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	34 bumping	obl
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 each	fixed
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 step	case
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 step	det
40	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bumping	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consent	participle · passive		the Earthen Pot at last			tree rules
2	set out	participle	the two	side		by side	tree rules
3	jolt	gerund	the two not said here		three stubby legs	to this side; along property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	bump	gerund			each	at every step	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into each=Location

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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