The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 7
As he stood wringing his hands and weeping, the god Mercury suddenly appeared and asked what the trouble was.
Who acts: he, god, trouble · What happens: stand, wring, appear, ask, be · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here
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, god, trouble), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 appeared | advcl |
| 4 | wringing | wring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wringing | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 weeping | cc |
| 8 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hands | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 god | det |
| 11 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 god | appos |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 14 appeared | advmod |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 appeared | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trouble | det |
| 19 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 what | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | cop |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | he | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | wring | gerund | he not said here | his hands and weeping | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | the god | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the god not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the trouble | tree rules |
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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