The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 5
Then, it is said, Hercules really did appear, saying:
Who acts: Hercules · What happens: say, appear · To what, where: luck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hercules), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux:pass |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 appear | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 7 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 appear | nsubj |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 appear | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 appear | aux |
| 10 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 appear | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | luck | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | appear | past · do-support | Hercules | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Hercules not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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