The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 19
The happy Woodman returned to his home with his treasures, and soon the story of his good fortune was known to everybody in the village.
Who acts: happy Woodman, Mercury · What happens: return, know, treasure · To what, where: story
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 (happy Woodman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woodman | det |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Woodman | amod |
| 3 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 treasures | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 10 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 returned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 known | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 known | cc |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 known | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 known | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fortune | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fortune | amod |
| 19 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 story | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 known | aux:pass |
| 21 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 returned | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 everybody | case |
| 23 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 known | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 village | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 village | det |
| 26 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 everybody | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the happy Woodman | to Mercury's home result; with Mercury's treasures | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | ||||
| 2 | know | past · passive | the story of Mercury's good fortune | to everybody; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | treasure | Mercury | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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