Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 73

The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.

Who acts: Tortoise · What happens: not stop, go on

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tortoise), 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 Tortoise	det
2	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stopped	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 stopped	advmod
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 stopped	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stopped	nsubj
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stopped	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 went	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	17 pace	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pace	det
14	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pace	amod
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 steady	cc
16	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 slow	conj
17	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
18	straight	straight	ADV	_	21 end	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 end	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 end	det
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 course	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 course	det
24	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 end	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	past	the Tortoise						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	go on	past	the Tortoise not said here				to the end of the course	with a slow pace	vn function-105.2.1 «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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