Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 44
The old man hearing this, quickly made his son mount the Ass, and continued to walk along merrily by his side.
Who acts: old man, son · What happens: hear, make, mount, continue, walk · To what, where: this, Ass
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 (old man, son), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj |
| 4 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 hearing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 made | advmod |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mount | nsubj |
| 11 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Ass | det |
| 13 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mount | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 continued | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 continued | cc |
| 16 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 walk | mark |
| 18 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 continued | xcomp |
| 19 | along | along | ADV | _ | 18 walk | advmod |
| 20 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 18 walk | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 side | nmod:poss |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walk | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the old man not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the old man | quickly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mount | infinitive | man's son | the Ass | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Patient | ||||
| 4 | continue | past | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | walk | to-infinitive | by man's side; along, merrily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory |
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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