Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 92

Soon afterwards, observing that he was an animal altogether deficient in spirit, he assumed such boldness as to put a bridle in his mouth, and to let a child drive him.

Who acts: MAN, child · What happens: observe, be, assume, put, let, drive · To what, where: deficient, spirit, animal, such boldness, bridle, mouth

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 (MAN, child), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 afterwards	advmod
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	4 observing	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 observing	punct
4	observing	observe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 assumed	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 animal	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 animal	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 animal	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 animal	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 observing	ccomp
10	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	11 deficient	advmod
11	deficient	deficient	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 observing	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 spirit	case
13	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deficient	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 observing	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 assumed	nsubj
16	assumed	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boldness	amod
18	boldness	boldness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 assumed	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 put	mark
20	to	to	PART	_	21 put	mark
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 assumed	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bridle	det
23	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 mouth	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mouth	nmod:poss
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 let	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 let	mark
30	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 assumed	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 child	det
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 let	obj
33	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 let	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 drive	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 assumed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	observe	gerund	MAN not said here	deficient	spirit	afterwards property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deficient=Topic
2	is a	past	MAN	a animal			tree rules
3	assume	past	MAN	such boldness			vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boldness=Theme
4	put	to-infinitive	MAN not said here	a bridle	MAN's mouth		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme in mouth=Destination
5	let	to-infinitive	MAN not said here	a child			tree rules
6	drive	infinitive	a child not said here	MAN			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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