--- title: A MULE, frolicsome from lack of work and from too much corn, gallope… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: A MULE, frolicsome from lack of work and from too much corn, galloped about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: “My father surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and spirit.” Who acts: MULE, father, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MULE, father, I), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg21:11:17 # text = A MULE, frolicsome from lack of work and from too much corn, galloped about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: “My father surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and spirit.” 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 MULE mule NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 frolicsome frolicsome NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 lack lack NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 too too ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 15 galloped gallop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 extravagant extravagant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 28 “ " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 31 surely surely ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 34 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 mettled mettle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 37 racer racer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 41 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ” " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gallop** | past | a MULE | | | a extravagant manner | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Trajectory | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | Mule | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | | 3 | **mettle** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | My father | a mettled racer and Mule's own child and spirit | | | | surely *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | I | Mule's own child | | speed | | | tree rules | | 6 | **lack** | | | work and much corn | | | | | nom lack «state 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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/18/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/)