Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 36

The owner went up after him and quickly drove him down, beating him severely with a thick wooden cudgel.

Who acts: owner · What happens: go up, drive down, beat · To what, where: Ass

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owner), 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 owner	det
2	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drove	cc
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 drove	advmod
9	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drove	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 drove	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beating	punct
13	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 drove	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 beating	obj
15	severely	severely	ADV	_	13 beating	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	20 cudgel	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cudgel	det
18	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cudgel	amod
19	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cudgel	amod
20	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beating	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	the owner		after Ass		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	drive down	past	the owner not said here	Ass		quickly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	beat	gerund	the owner not said here	Ass		with a thick wooden cudgel; severely property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with cudgel=Instrument

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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