Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 102
Then the Ass, seeing all these things, changed his mind, and commiserated the Horse.
Who acts: Ass, Horse · What happens: see, change, commiserate, mind · To what, where: things, mind, Horse
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, Horse), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Ass | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ass | det |
| 3 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeing | punct |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Ass | acl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 things | det:predet |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seeing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ass | punct |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mind | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 commiserated | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 commiserated | cc |
| 15 | commiserated | commiserate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 changed | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Horse | det |
| 17 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 commiserated | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the Ass not said here | all things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | change | past | the Ass | Horse's mind | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 3 | commiserate | past | the Ass not said here | the Horse | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mind | Horse | nom mind «cognition 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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