The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 4

Thus it happened that the axe slipped and flew out of his hands into the pool.

Who acts: it, axe · What happens: happen, slip, fly out · To what, where: hands, pool

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 (it, axe), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 slipped	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 axe	det
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slipped	nsubj
7	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slipped	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 hands	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flew	obl
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 pool	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pool	det
16	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			thus property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	slip	past	the axe				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	fly out	past	the axe not said here	his hands	the pool		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme into pool=Trajectory

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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