Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 59

So, alighting with his son, they tied the legs of the Ass together and with the help of a pole endeavored to carry him on their shoulders over a bridge near the entrance to the town.

Who acts: stars · What happens: alight, tie, endeavor, carry, help · To what, where: legs, pole, man, shoulders

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 (stars), 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 tied	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	alighting	alight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tied	advcl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 son	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 alighting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 alighting	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tied	nsubj
9	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 legs	det
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tied	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Ass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Ass	det
14	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 legs	nmod
15	together	together	ADV	_	9 tied	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tied	cc
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 help	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 help	det
19	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 and	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 pole	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pole	det
22	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 help	nmod
23	endeavored	endeavor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 pole	acl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 carry	mark
25	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 endeavored	xcomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 carry	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 shoulders	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shoulders	nmod:poss
29	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 carry	obl
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 bridge	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bridge	det
32	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carry	obl
33	near	near	ADP	_	35 entrance	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 entrance	det
35	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carry	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 town	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 town	det
38	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 entrance	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	alight	gerund	stars = star not said here			with man's son	tree rules
2	tie	past	stars = star	the legs of the Ass		together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	endeavor	participle		a pole not said here			tree rules
4	carry	to-infinitive		man	stars's shoulders	over a bridge; near the entrance to the town	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	help			a pole			nom help «act transitive»: of=patient

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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