Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 59

The Ass, again playing the fool, fell down on purpose when he reached the stream, but the sponges became swollen with water, greatly increasing his load.

Who acts: Ass, PEDDLER, sponges · What happens: play, fall down, reach, become, increase · To what, where: fool, purpose, stream, load

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, PEDDLER, sponges), 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	9 fell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct
4	again	again	ADV	_	5 playing	advmod
5	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Ass	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fool	det
7	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 playing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ass	punct
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 purpose	case
12	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 reached	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reached	nsubj
15	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fell	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stream	det
17	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reached	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 became	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 became	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sponges	det
21	sponges	sponge	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 became	nsubj
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fell	conj
23	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 became	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 water	case
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 became	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 increasing	punct
27	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	28 increasing	advmod
28	increasing	increase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 became	advcl
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	28 increasing	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	the Ass not said here	the fool		again		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Theme
2	fall down	past	the Ass		purpose		down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location
3	reach	past	PEDDLER	the stream				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stream=Theme
4	become	past	the sponges				with water; swollen property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	increase	gerund	the sponges not said here	PEDDLER's load			greatly property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer load=Patient

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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