Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 124

The Mule carrying the treasure walked with head erect, as if conscious of the value of his burden, and tossed up and down the clear-toned bells fastened to his neck.

Who acts: Mule, One · What happens: carry, walk, toss up, tone, fasten, value · To what, where: treasure, burden

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 (Mule, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mule	det
2	Mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	nsubj
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Mule	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 treasure	det
5	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carrying	obj
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 head	case
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obl
9	erect	erect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 head	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 conscious	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 conscious	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 conscious	mark
13	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 walked	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 value	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 value	det
16	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 conscious	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 burden	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 burden	nmod:poss
19	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 value	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tossed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tossed	cc
22	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walked	parataxis
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 tossed	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fastened	cc
25	down	down	ADP	_	30 bells	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bells	det
27	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 toned	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 clear	punct
29	toned	tone	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 bells	amod
30	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fastened	obl
31	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tossed	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 neck	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 neck	nmod:poss
34	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fastened	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund	the Mule not said here	the treasure		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
2	walk	past	the Mule		with head	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	toss up	past				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	tone	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	fasten	past			down the toned bells; to One's neck	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to neck=Co-Patient
6	value			One's burden		nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	burden		One			nom burden «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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