Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 103
The Old Man hurriedly replied, “That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders.”
Who acts: Old Man, you · What happens: reply, lift up, place · To what, where: That, load · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Man, you), 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 | 3 Man | det |
| 2 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Man | amod |
| 3 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 5 replied | advmod |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 That | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 That | punct |
| 8 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 replied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lifting | punct |
| 10 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lifting | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 load | det |
| 13 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lifting | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 place | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 place | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 place | aux |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 again | nsubj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 place | advmod |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 shoulders | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 22 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 place | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 place | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Old Man | That | hurriedly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | lift up in a quote | gerund | the Old Man not said here | the load | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place in a quote | may | you | again | upon my shoulders | tree rules |
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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