Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 122

TWO MULES well-laden with packs were trudging along.

Who acts: TWO MULES · What happens: lade, trudge · To what, where: TWO MULES

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 (TWO MULES), 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	TWO	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 MULES	nummod
2	MULES	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trudging	nsubj
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 laden	advmod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 MULES	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 packs	case
7	packs	pack	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laden	obl
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 trudging	aux
9	trudging	trudge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	along	along	ADV	_	9 trudging	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 trudging	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lade	participle		TWO MULES not said here				with packs; well property	tree rules
2	trudge	past · progressive	TWO MULES					along property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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