Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 58

As he was crossing through the water he lost his footing, stumbled and fell, and not being able to rise on account of his load, groaned heavily.

Who acts: Ass · What happens: cross, lose, stumble, fall, not be, rise · To what, where: water, footing, account, load

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 (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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 crossing	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crossing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crossing	aux
4	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 lost	advcl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossing	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lost	nsubj
9	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 footing	nmod:poss
11	footing	footing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stumbled	punct
13	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 footing	acl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fell	cc
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 able	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 able	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 able	advmod
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 able	cop
20	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fell	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 rise	mark
22	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 able	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 account	case
24	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rise	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 load	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 load	nmod:poss
27	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 account	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 groaned	punct
29	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	conj
30	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	29 groaned	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	past · progressive	Ass		the water		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through water=Initial_Location
2	lose	past	Ass	Ass's footing			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footing=Eventuality
3	stumble	participle		Ass's footing not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	Ass not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not is	gerund	Ass not said here			able property	tree rules
6	rise	to-infinitive	Ass not said here		account of Ass's load		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on account=Location
7	groan	past	Ass not said here			heavily property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	account			Ass's load			nom account «communication transitive»: of=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: «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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