The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 18

"I admire your honesty," he said, "and as a reward you may have all three axes, the gold and the silver as well as your own."

Who acts: Mercury, you · What happens: admire, say, have · To what, where: honesty, three axes · 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 (Mercury, you), 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	_	3 admire	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 admire	nsubj
3	admire	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 honesty	nmod:poss
5	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 admire	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 admire	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 admire	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 reward	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 reward	det
15	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 axes	det
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 axes	nummod
21	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gold	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gold	det
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 axes	appos
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 silver	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 silver	det
27	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gold	conj
28	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	32 own	cc
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 as	fixed
30	as	as	ADP	_	28 as	fixed
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 own	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gold	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	admire in a quote	present	Mercury	your honesty		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honesty=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Mercury			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	may	you	all three axes	as a reward	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ax=Patient

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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