The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 14

This time he brought up an axe of silver, but the Woodman declared again that his axe was just an ordinary one with a wooden handle.

Who acts: Mercury, Woodman, axe · What happens: bring up, declare, be · To what, where: axe, ordinary one

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, Woodman, axe), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 brought	compound:prt
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 axe	det
7	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 silver	case
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 axe	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 declared	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 declared	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Woodman	det
13	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 declared	nsubj
14	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	conj
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 declared	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 one	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 axe	nmod:poss
18	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 one	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	cop
20	just	just	ADV	_	23 one	advmod
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 one	det
22	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 declared	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 handle	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 handle	det
26	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 handle	amod
27	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 one	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring up	past	Mercury	a axe of silver	time		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent axe=Patient
2	declare speech: other	past	the Woodman		again		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Mercury's axe	a ordinary one		with a wooden handle	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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