The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 20
Now there were several Woodmen in the village who believed that they could easily win the same good fortune.
Who acts: several Woodmen, village, treasures · What happens: be, believe, win · To what, where: same good fortune · 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 (several Woodmen, village, treasures), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 were | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Woodmen | amod |
| 5 | Woodmen | woodman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Woodmen | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 believed | nsubj |
| 10 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 village | acl:relcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 win | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 win | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 win | aux |
| 14 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 15 win | advmod |
| 15 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 believed | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fortune | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fortune | amod |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fortune | amod |
| 19 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 win | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | several Woodmen in the village | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | believe | past | the village | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | win | could | treasures = treasure | the same good fortune | easily property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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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