The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 8
The Woodman told what had happened, and straightway the kind Mercury dived into the pool.
Who acts: Woodman, straightway · What happens: tell, happen, dive · To what, where: pool · 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 (Woodman, straightway), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Woodman | det |
| 2 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | aux |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dived | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dived | cc |
| 9 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dived | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mercury | det |
| 11 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Mercury | amod |
| 12 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dived | nsubj |
| 13 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 pool | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pool | det |
| 16 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dived | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Woodman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | dive | past | straightway | the pool | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pool=Location |
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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