Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 41
A MILLER and his son were driving their Ass to a neighboring fair to sell him.
Who acts: MILLER · What happens: drive, neighbor, sell · To what, where: Ass, Son
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MILLER), 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 MILLER | det |
| 2 | MILLER | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 driving | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 son | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 MILLER | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 driving | aux |
| 7 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Ass | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 driving | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 fair | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fair | det |
| 12 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 fair | amod |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 driving | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sell | mark |
| 15 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fair | csubj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sell | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 driving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · progressive | a MILLER and Son's son | Miller's Ass | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme ass=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sell | to-infinitive | Son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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