Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 20

The Ass, as long as he traveled along the plain, carried his load with ease, but when he began to ascend the steep path of the mountain, felt his load to be more than he could bear.

Who acts: MULETEER, Ass · What happens: travel, carry, begin, ascend, feel, be · To what, where: plain, load, steep path

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: who acts (MULETEER, Ass), 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 Ass	det
2	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 traveled	punct
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 traveled	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 traveled	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 traveled	nsubj
8	traveled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Ass	conj
9	along	along	ADP	_	11 plain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plain	det
11	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 traveled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ass	punct
13	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 load	nmod:poss
15	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 ease	case
17	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 felt	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 felt	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 began	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 began	nsubj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 felt	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 ascend	mark
24	ascend	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 path	det
26	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 path	amod
27	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ascend	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 mountain	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mountain	det
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 path	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 felt	punct
32	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 load	nmod:poss
34	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 felt	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	37 more	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 more	cop
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 felt	obj
38	than	than	SCONJ	_	41 bear	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 bear	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 bear	aux
41	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 more	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	past	MULETEER		the plain	long property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along plain=Trajectory
2	carry	past	the Ass	MULETEER's load		with ease	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme
3	begin	past	MULETEER				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	ascend	to-infinitive	MULETEER not said here	the steep path of the mountain			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Trajectory
5	feel	past	the Ass not said here	MULETEER's load			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive				more property	tree rules
7	bear	could	MULETEER				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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