Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 52
The good-natured Miller immediately took up his son behind him.
Who acts: natured Miller · What happens: take up · To what, where: 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 (natured 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Miller | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 natured | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 good | punct |
| 4 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Miller | amod |
| 5 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 6 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 7 took | advmod |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 took | compound:prt |
| 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 | 7 took | obj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | the natured Miller | beast's son | behind beast; immediately property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination |
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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