The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 21

They hurried out into the woods, one here, one there, and hiding their axes in the bushes, pretended they had lost them.

Who acts: treasures · What happens: hurry out, hide, pretend, lose · To what, where: woods, axes, bushes

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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hurried	nsubj
2	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 hurried	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hurried	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hurried	conj
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 one	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 one	nmod
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 one	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hiding	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hiding	cc
15	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hurried	advcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 axes	nmod:poss
17	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hiding	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 bushes	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bushes	det
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hiding	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pretended	punct
22	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hurried	conj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lost	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lost	aux
25	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 pretended	ccomp
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lost	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hurried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hurry out	past	treasures = treasure		the woods	out property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination
2	hide	gerund	treasures = treasure not said here	treasures's axes	the bushes		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ax=Patient in bush=Location
3	pretend	past	treasures = treasure not said here				tree rules
4	lose	past · perfect	treasures = treasure	axes = ax			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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