The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 13
Mercury laid the golden axe on the bank and sprang back into the pool.
Who acts: Mercury · What happens: lay, spring back · To what, where: golden axe, bank, pool
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 (Mercury), 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 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 axe | det |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 axe | amod |
| 5 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laid | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bank | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bank | det |
| 8 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laid | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sprang | cc |
| 10 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laid | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 sprang | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 pool | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pool | det |
| 14 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprang | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Mercury | the golden axe | the bank | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent axe=Theme on bank=Destination | |||
| 2 | spring back | past | Mercury not said here | the pool | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pool=Destination |
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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