The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 23

And indeed, Mercury did appear, first to this one, then to that.

Who acts: Mercury · What happens: appear

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 appear	cc
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 appear	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 indeed	punct
4	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 appear	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appear	aux
6	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 first	punct
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 appear	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 one	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 first	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 then	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 appear	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 then	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past · do-support	Mercury				then	first, indeed property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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