The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 22
Then they wept and wailed and called on Mercury to help them.
Who acts: treasures · What happens: weep, wail, call, help · To what, where: Mercury, treasures · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wept | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wailed | cc |
| 5 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 called | cc |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wailed | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Mercury | case |
| 9 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 help | mark |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 called | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 help | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | treasures = treasure | then | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wail | past | treasures = treasure not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | participle | treasures = treasure not said here | Mercury | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | treasures = treasure not said here | treasures = treasure | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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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