Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 30
The Ass, on the contrary, had much work to do in grinding the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from the farm.
Who acts: Ass, much work · What happens: have, do, grind, carry, burden · To what, where: much work, corn mill, wood, forest, farm
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, much work), 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 | 8 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 contrary | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 contrary | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 contrary | det |
| 6 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ass | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ass | punct |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 work | amod |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 grinding | mark |
| 14 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 do | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mill | det |
| 16 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mill | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 corn | punct |
| 18 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grinding | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 carrying | cc |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 carrying | mark |
| 21 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 grinding | conj |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carrying | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 forest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forest | det |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carrying | obl |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 burdens | cc |
| 27 | burdens | burden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 farm | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 farm | det |
| 30 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 burdens | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Ass and the contrary | much work | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | much work not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grind | gerund | much work not said here | the corn mill | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Patient | ||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | much work not said here | wood | the forest | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent wood=Theme from forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | burden | present | the Ass and the contrary not said here | the farm | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: 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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