Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 19
A MULETEER set forth on a journey, driving before him an Ass and a Mule, both well laden.
What happens: set, drive, lade · To what, where: MULETEER, journey, Ass
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 MULETEER | det |
| 2 | MULETEER | muleteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laden | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 MULETEER | acl |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 driving | punct |
| 9 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 set | conj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 driving | obl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Ass | det |
| 13 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driving | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Mule | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Mule | det |
| 16 | Mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Ass | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 MULETEER | punct |
| 18 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 laden | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 laden | advmod |
| 20 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 laden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | a MULETEER not said here | a journey | forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on journey=Destination | |||
| 2 | drive | gerund | a Ass and a Mule | before Mule | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ass=Theme before he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lade | participle · passive | a MULETEER | well property | tree rules |
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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