Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 50
Upon this the old man made his son dismount, and got up himself.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: make, get up, dismount · To what, where: son dismount, man
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, man), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 man | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dismount | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dismount | compound |
| 9 | dismount | dismount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 got | cc |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 got | compound:prt |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 got | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the old man | man's son dismount | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dismount=Product | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | the old man not said here | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | dismount | man | nom dismount «act intransitive»: poss=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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