Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 60
This entertaining sight brought the people in crowds to laugh at it, till the Ass, not liking the noise nor the strange handling that he was subject to, broke the cords that bound him and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river.
Who acts: entertaining sight, Ass, cords · What happens: bring, laugh, not like, be, break, bound · To what, where: people, crowds, sight, noise, strange handling, cords
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 (entertaining sight, Ass, cords), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sight | det |
| 2 | entertaining | entertaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sight | amod |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 crowds | case |
| 8 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 laugh | mark |
| 10 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 brought | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laugh | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ass | punct |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 Ass | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ass | det |
| 16 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laugh | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 liking | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 liking | advmod |
| 19 | liking | like | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 brought | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 noise | det |
| 21 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 liking | obj |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 handling | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 handling | det |
| 24 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 handling | amod |
| 25 | handling | handling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 noise | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 subject | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 subject | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 subject | cop |
| 29 | subject | subject | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 handling | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 subject | fixed |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 broke | punct |
| 32 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 cords | det |
| 34 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 broke | obj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 bound | nsubj |
| 36 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 cords | acl:relcl |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 bound | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 tumbling | cc |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 tumbling | punct |
| 40 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 broke | conj |
| 41 | off | off | ADP | _ | 43 pole | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 pole | det |
| 43 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tumbling | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 fell | punct |
| 45 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 broke | conj |
| 46 | into | into | ADP | _ | 48 river | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 river | det |
| 48 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 fell | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | this entertaining sight | the people | crowds | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument people=Destination | |||
| 2 | laugh | to-infinitive | this entertaining sight not said here | sight | till the Ass | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not like | gerund | this entertaining sight not said here | the noise nor the strange handling | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot noise=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Ass | the strange handling not said here | subject property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | break | past | the cords | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cord=Patient | |||||
| 6 | bound | present | the cords | Ass | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | tumble | gerund | the pole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme off pole=Initial_Location | |||||
| 8 | fall | past | into the river result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result |
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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