English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 44

When he arrived there he found his father was dead, so he brought his ass into the stable, and pulled its ears till he had filled the manger with money.

Who acts: man, father · What happens: arrive, find, be, bring, pull, fill · To what, where: ass, stable, ears, manger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, father), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 arrived	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 arrived	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	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	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dead	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 found	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 brought	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 brought	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brought	nsubj
14	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ass	nmod:poss
16	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 stable	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stable	det
19	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pulled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pulled	cc
22	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	parataxis
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ears	nmod:poss
24	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pulled	obj
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 filled	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 filled	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 filled	aux
28	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 pulled	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 manger	det
30	manger	manger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 filled	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 money	case
32	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 manger	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	man		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	man				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	man's father			dead property	tree rules
4	bring	past	man	man's ass	the stable		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ass=Theme into stable=Destination
5	pull	past		ass's ears			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
6	fill	past · perfect	man	the manger		with money	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent manger=Patient with money=Instrument

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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