--- title: On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very weari… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very wearied, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: “I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could have been only an ass.” Who acts: Mule, disconsolate tone. 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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, disconsolate tone), 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:pg21:11:18 # text = On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very wearied, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: “I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could have been only an ass.” 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 driven drive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 wearied weary VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 disconsolate disconsolate NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux _ _ 28 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl:relcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 35 after after ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 39 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux _ _ 40 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 cop _ _ 41 only only ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drive** | gerund · passive | | a long journey | | | day | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: journey=Patient clause=Result | | 2 | **feel** | gerund | Mule *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **weary** | participle | Mule *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Mule | | | a disconsolate tone | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | must · perfect · passive | a disconsolate tone *not said here* | Mule | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mistake=Product | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | could · perfect | | a ass | | | after all | | tree rules | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/19/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/)