Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 69

Shortly afterwards, finding that he had heavier loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, he petitioned for another change of master.

Who acts: Shadow, master · What happens: find, have, carry, petition, change · To what, where: heavier loads · 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 (Shadow, 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	Shortly	shortly	ADV	_	2 afterwards	advmod
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	4 finding	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finding	punct
4	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 petitioned	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finding	ccomp
8	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 loads	amod
9	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 carry	mark
11	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 loads	acl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 work	cc
13	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 work	amod
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loads	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 field	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 field	det
17	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 field	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 brick	punct
19	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 work	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finding	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 petitioned	nsubj
22	petitioned	petition	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 change	case
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 change	det
25	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 petitioned	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 master	case
27	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 change	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 petitioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	gerund	Shadow not said here		afterwards property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	Shadow	heavier loads and harder work in the brick field		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient
3	carry	to-infinitive	Shadow not said here	heavier loads and harder work in the brick field not said here		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	petition	past	Shadow		for another change of master	tree rules
5	change		master			nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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