--- title: The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his sh… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and said, “O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass.” Who acts: driver, you, perverse dull head, men. 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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 (driver, you, perverse dull head, men), 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:pg21:8:23 # text = The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and said, “O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 thus thus ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 whip whip NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 lustily lustily ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 O o INTJ UH _ 25 discourse _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 perverse perverse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ! ! PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 yet yet ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 38 worship worship NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | the driver *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **stop** | present | driver | | | | | thus *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **lay** | past | the driver | driver's whip | | | | about driver's shoulders; lustily *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whip=Theme about shoulder=Destination | | 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the driver *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **head** *in a quote* | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | perverse dull head | | | | yet | to this; come *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **pay** *in a quote* | present | that men | worship | | | | to a Ass | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worship=Asset | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/24/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/)