Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 60
And thus his trick recoiled on him, for he now carried on his back a double burden.
Who acts: trick, PEDDLER · What happens: recoil, carry, trick · To what, where: double burden, back
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 (trick, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 recoiled | cc |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 recoiled | advmod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 trick | nmod:poss |
| 4 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recoiled | nsubj |
| 5 | recoiled | recoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 recoiled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 carried | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | nsubj |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 carried | advmod |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recoiled | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 burden | det |
| 17 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 burden | amod |
| 18 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 recoiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recoil | participle | PEDDLER's trick | on PEDDLER; thus property | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | PEDDLER | a double burden | PEDDLER's back | now | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Theme | ||
| 3 | trick | PEDDLER | nom trick «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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