Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 59
A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place.
Who acts: TRAVELER · What happens: hire, convey · To what, where: Ass, Lion, distant place
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 (TRAVELER), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 TRAVELER | det |
| 2 | TRAVELER | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hired | nsubj |
| 3 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Ass | det |
| 5 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hired | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 convey | mark |
| 7 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hired | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 convey | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 11 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 place | amod |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 convey | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | past | a TRAVELER | a Ass | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | convey | to-infinitive | a TRAVELER not said here | Lion | a distant place | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to place=Recipient |
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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