Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 91

The Ass listened to his words, and falling into a ditch, was very much bruised.

Who acts: Ass, feeding · What happens: listen, fall, bruise, word · To what, where: ditch

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, feeding), 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	3 listened	nsubj
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 words	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 words	nmod:poss
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 listened	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruised	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bruised	cc
9	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 bruised	advcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 ditch	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ditch	det
12	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 falling	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 falling	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bruised	aux:pass
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 bruised	advmod
17	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 listened	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	listen	past	the Ass	to feeding's words	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
2	fall	gerund		into a ditch result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ditch=Result
3	bruise	past · passive	the Ass not said here		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»
4	word		feeding		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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