Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 60

The day being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, the Traveler stopped to rest, and sought shelter from the heat under the Shadow of the Ass.

Who acts: day, sun · What happens: be, shine, stop, rest, seek · To what, where: strength, shelter, heat

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 (day, sun), 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 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	nsubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hot	cop
4	intensely	intensely	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stopped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stopped	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stopped	nsubj
10	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 sun	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 strength	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 strength	nmod:poss
13	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shining	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stopped	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Traveler	det
16	Traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stopped	nsubj
17	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 rest	mark
19	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stopped	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sought	cc
22	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stopped	conj
23	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sought	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 heat	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 heat	det
26	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sought	obl
27	under	under	ADP	_	29 Shadow	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Shadow	det
29	Shadow	Shadow	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 sought	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Ass	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Ass	det
32	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Shadow	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the day			hot, intensely property	tree rules
2	shine	gerund	the sun not said here		sun's strength		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in strength=Location
3	stop	past	the sun				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	rest	to-infinitive	the sun not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seek	past	the sun not said here	shelter	the heat	under the Shadow of the Ass	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme under shadow=Location

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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