Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 22

The Ass, thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect for himself, bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refused to move another step.

Who acts: Ass, inhabitants · What happens: think, bow, bristle up, give, refuse, not move · To what, where: heads, token, airs, material, step · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, inhabitants), 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	17 bristled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct
4	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Ass	acl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 bowed	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bowed	nsubj
7	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	ccomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heads	nmod:poss
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bowed	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 token	case
11	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bowed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 respect	case
13	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 token	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 respect	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ass	punct
17	bristled	bristle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 bristled	compound:prt
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 pride	case
20	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bristled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bristled	conj
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 gave	iobj
24	airs	air	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gave	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 refused	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 refused	cc
27	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bristled	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 move	mark
29	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 refused	xcomp
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 step	det
31	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 move	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 bristled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	the Ass not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	bow	past	inhabitants = inhabitant	inhabitants's heads		token of respect for material		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
3	bristle up	past	the Ass				with pride	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pride=Theme
4	give	past	the Ass not said here	airs	material			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient air=Theme
5	refuse	past	the Ass not said here					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not move	to-infinitive	the Ass not said here	another step				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent step=Theme

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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