Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 52
AN ASS, being driven along a high road, suddenly started off and bolted to the brink of a deep precipice.
What happens: drive, start off, bolt · To what, where: AN ASS, high road, brink
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: 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 | AN | an | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ASS | amod |
| 2 | ASS | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 driven | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 driven | aux:pass |
| 5 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ASS | acl |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 road | amod |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 driven | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 started | advmod |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 driven | parataxis |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 started | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bolted | cc |
| 15 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 started | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 brink | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brink | det |
| 18 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bolted | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 precipice | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 precipice | det |
| 21 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 precipice | amod |
| 22 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brink | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ASS | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | gerund · passive | AN ASS not said here | a high road | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: along road=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | start off | past | suddenly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | bolt | participle | the brink of a deep precipice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brink=Initial_Location |
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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