Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 57
When he came again to the stream, the Ass fell down on purpose in the same spot, and, regaining his feet with the weight of his load much diminished, brayed triumphantly as if he had obtained what he desired.
Who acts: PEDDLER, Ass · What happens: come, fall down, regain, diminish, bray, obtain · To what, where: stream, purpose, feet
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, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 stream | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stream | det |
| 7 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ass | det |
| 10 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stream | acl:relcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 fell | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 purpose | case |
| 14 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 spot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spot | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spot | amod |
| 18 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 regaining | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 regaining | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 regaining | punct |
| 22 | regaining | regain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feet | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 regaining | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 weight | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 weight | det |
| 27 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 regaining | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 load | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 load | nmod:poss |
| 30 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 weight | nmod |
| 31 | much | much | ADV | _ | 32 diminished | advmod |
| 32 | diminished | diminish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 regaining | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 brayed | punct |
| 34 | brayed | bray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 diminished | conj |
| 35 | triumphantly | triumphantly | ADV | _ | 34 brayed | advmod |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 obtained | mark |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 obtained | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 obtained | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 obtained | aux |
| 40 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 brayed | advcl |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 desired | obj |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 desired | nsubj |
| 43 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 obtained | ccomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | PEDDLER | the stream | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stream=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fall down | past | the Ass | the stream not said here | purpose | in the same spot; down property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stream=Result | ||
| 3 | regain | gerund | PEDDLER not said here | PEDDLER's feet | with the weight of PEDDLER's load | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | |||
| 4 | diminish | past | PEDDLER not said here | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | bray | past | PEDDLER not said here | triumphantly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | obtain | past · perfect | PEDDLER | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | desire | past | PEDDLER | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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