Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 57
AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond.
Who acts: AN ASS · What happens: carry, pass · To what, where: load, AN ASS, pond
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (AN 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 | AN | an | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ASS | amod |
| 2 | ASS | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 carrying | punct |
| 4 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 ASS | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 load | det |
| 6 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carrying | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 load | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ASS | acl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 pond | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pond | det |
| 13 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ASS | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | gerund | AN ASS not said here | a load of wood | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | AN ASS not said here | a pond | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through pond=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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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