Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 43

He took the Ass home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which the new animal left all the others and at once joined the one that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all.

Who acts: Ass, new animal, one · What happens: take, put, leave, join, be · To what, where: Ass home, Ass, others, one

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, new animal, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 home	det
4	Ass	Ass	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 home	compound
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 put	cc
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 yard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 yard	det
11	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 yard	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 straw	punct
13	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 Asses	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 Asses	nmod:poss
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Asses	amod
17	Asses	Ass	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 left	punct
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 left	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 animal	det
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 animal	amod
23	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 left	nsubj
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	parataxis
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 others	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 others	det
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 left	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 joined	cc
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 joined	obl
31	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 left	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 joined	obj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 idle	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 idle	cop
36	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	37 idle	advmod
37	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 one	acl:relcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 eater	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 eater	det
40	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 eater	amod
41	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 idle	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 eater	nmod
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 them	nmod:unmarked
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	Ass	the Ass home		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme
2	put	infinitive	Ass not said here	Ass	in the straw yard; with Ass's other Asses	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in yard=Destination
3	leave	participle	the new animal	all others		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent other=Theme upon which=Location
4	join	past	the new animal not said here	the one		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	is	past	the one		idle property	tree rules

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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