Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 56

The Peddler retraced his steps and refilled his panniers with a larger quantity of salt than before.

Who acts: Peddler · What happens: retrace, refill, step · To what, where: steps, panniers

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 (Peddler), 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 Peddler	det
2	Peddler	Peddler	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 retraced	nsubj
3	retraced	retrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 steps	nmod:poss
5	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 retraced	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 refilled	cc
7	refilled	refill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 retraced	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 panniers	nmod:poss
9	panniers	pannier	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 refilled	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 quantity	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 quantity	det
12	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 quantity	amod
13	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 refilled	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 salt	case
15	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quantity	nmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 before	case
17	before	before	ADV	_	7 refilled	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 retraced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	retrace	past	the Peddler	PEDDLER's steps		tree rules
2	refill	past	the Peddler not said here	PEDDLER's panniers	with a larger quantity of salt	tree rules
3	step		PEDDLER			nom step «act 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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