Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 55

His road home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step, fell by accident and rose up again with his load considerably lighter, as the water melted the sack.

Who acts: road, water · What happens: lie, make, fall, rise up, melt · To what, where: stream, false step, sack

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 (road, water), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 road	nmod:poss
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
3	home	home	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 stream	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stream	det
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 Ass	case
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	11 Ass	det
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 Ass	nmod:poss
11	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 making	punct
13	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lay	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 step	det
15	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 step	amod
16	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 making	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	parataxis
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 accident	case
20	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rose	cc
22	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fell	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 rose	compound:prt
24	again	again	ADV	_	22 rose	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 load	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 load	nmod:poss
27	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rose	obl
28	considerably	considerably	ADV	_	29 lighter	advmod
29	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 rose	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 melted	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 melted	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 water	det
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 melted	nsubj
34	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fell	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sack	det
36	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 melted	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	PEDDLER's road		a stream		into PEDDLER's Ass; home property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	gerund	PEDDLER's road not said here	a false step				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset step=Product
3	fall	past					by accident	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by accident=Location
4	rise up	past				again	with PEDDLER's load	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	melt	past	the water	the sack				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sack=Result

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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