The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 24
To each one he showed an axe of gold, and each one eagerly claimed it to be the one he had lost.
Who acts: Mercury, one · What happens: show, claim, be, lose · To what, where: axe, one
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, one), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 showed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 showed | nsubj |
| 5 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 axe | det |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 showed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 axe | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 claimed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 claimed | cc |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 claimed | nsubj |
| 14 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 15 claimed | advmod |
| 15 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 showed | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 claimed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 one | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 one | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 claimed | xcomp |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lost | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Mercury | a axe of gold | each one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent axe=Topic to one=Recipient | |||
| 2 | claim speech: other | past | each one | axe | eagerly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | each one not said here | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | Mercury | the one not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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