The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 12
"No," answered the honest Woodman, "that is not my axe."
Who acts: honest Woodman, that · What happens: answer, not be · To what, where: axe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Mercury and the Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honest Woodman, that), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Woodman | det |
| 7 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Woodman | amod |
| 8 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 axe | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 axe | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 axe | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 axe | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 axe | advmod |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 axe | nmod:poss |
| 15 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Woodman | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the honest Woodman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | that | my axe | 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: «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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