The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 15

Mercury dived down for the third time, and when he came up again he had the very axe that had been lost.

Who acts: Mercury · What happens: dive down, come up, have, lose · To what, where: axe

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 dived	nsubj
2	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 dived	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	advcl
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dived	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 axe	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 axe	advmod
19	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lost	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lost	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 lost	aux:pass
23	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 axe	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	dive down	past	Mercury		time	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	come up	past	Mercury		again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	Mercury	the axe		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Patient
4	lose	past · perfect · passive		the axe		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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