Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 122
The Ass, being heavily laden, moved slowly out of the way.
Who acts: Ass · What happens: lade, move · To what, where: Ass, way
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 laden | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 laden | aux:pass |
| 5 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 6 laden | advmod |
| 6 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Ass | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ass | punct |
| 8 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 moved | advmod |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lade | gerund · passive | the Ass not said here | heavily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | past | the Ass | the way | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme out way=Trajectory |
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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