The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 6
The axe was all he possessed with which to make a living, and he had not money enough to buy a new one.
Who acts: he · What happens: possess, make, have, buy · To what, where: living, money, new 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 (he), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:709): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 axe | det |
| 2 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 all | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 possessed | nsubj |
| 6 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | acl:relcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 make | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 all | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 living | det |
| 12 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | conj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 money | advmod |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 money | amod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 buy | mark |
| 21 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 money | acl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 one | amod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buy | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | past | he | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a living | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product | |||||
| 3 | have | past | he | money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 4 | buy | to-infinitive | he not said here | a new one | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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