Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 37

The Horse fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden, and said to his master, “You must now go to the war on foot, for you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass; and how can you expect that I can again turn in a moment from an Ass to a Horse?”

Who acts: Horse, master · What happens: fall down, say, go, transform, expect, turn · To what, where: straightway, weight, master, foot, Horse, Ass · 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 (Horse, master), 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 Horse	det
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
5	straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl:unmarked
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 weight	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 weight	det
8	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 equal	punct
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 longer	advmod
11	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 equal	advmod
12	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 burden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 burden	det
15	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 equal	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 master	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 master	nmod:poss
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
24	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 go	advmod
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 war	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 war	det
30	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 foot	case
32	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 transformed	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 transformed	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 transformed	nsubj
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 transformed	aux
37	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 go	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 transformed	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 Horse	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 Horse	det
41	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 transformed	obl
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 Ass	case
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 Ass	det
44	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 transformed	obl
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 expect	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 expect	cc
47	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	50 expect	advmod
48	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 expect	aux
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 expect	nsubj
50	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fell	parataxis
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 turn	mark
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 turn	nsubj
53	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 turn	aux
54	again	again	ADV	_	55 turn	advmod
55	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 expect	advcl
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 moment	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 moment	det
58	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 turn	obl
59	from	from	ADP	_	61 Ass	case
60	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 Ass	det
61	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 turn	obl
62	to	to	ADP	_	64 Horse	case
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 Horse	det
64	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 turn	obl
65	?	?	PUNCT	_	50 expect	punct
66	”	"	PUNCT	_	50 expect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	the Horse	straightway		the weight		down property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the Horse not said here		SOLDIER's master				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	must	SOLDIER's master = master			foot	now	to the war	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location
4	transform in a quote	present · perfect	SOLDIER's master = master	the Horse = horse				into a Ass result; from a Horse	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient from horse=Initial_State into ass=Result
5	expect in a quote	can	SOLDIER's master = master						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	turn in a quote	can	the Horse = horse			a Ass	again; moment	to a Horse result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from ass=Initial_State to horse=Result

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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