The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 16

The poor Woodman was very glad that his axe had been found and could not thank the kind god enough.

Who acts: poor Woodman · What happens: be, find, not thank · To what, where: axe, kind god

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 (poor Woodman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woodman	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Woodman	amod
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 glad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 glad	advmod
6	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 found	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 axe	nmod:poss
9	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 found	aux:pass
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 glad	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 thank	cc
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 thank	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 thank	advmod
16	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 found	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 god	det
18	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 god	amod
19	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thank	obj
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 thank	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor Woodman			glad property	tree rules
2	find	past · perfect · passive		Mercury's axe			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	not thank speech: thank	could			the kind god	enough property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme

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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