Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 22

The Ass shortly afterwards fell down dead under his burden.

Who acts: Ass, MULETEER · What happens: fall down, burden · To what, where: dead

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 (Ass, MULETEER), 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	5 fell	nsubj
3	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	2 Ass	advmod
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	5 fell	advmod
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fell	obj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 burden	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 burden	nmod:poss
10	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	the Ass	dead				afterwards property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient dead=Result
2	burden		MULETEER						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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