The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 28
And when they returned next day to look for their own axes, they were nowhere to be found.
Who acts: gold · What happens: return, look, be, find
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 (gold), 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 | _ | 4 returned | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 returned | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 returned | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 axes | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 axes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 axes | amod |
| 12 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 look | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nowhere | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 nowhere | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 nowhere | cop |
| 16 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 returned | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 found | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 found | aux:pass |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 nowhere | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | gold | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | gold not said here | for gold's own axes | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for ax=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | gold | nowhere property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive · passive | gold not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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