The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 9
When he came up again he held a wonderful golden axe.
Who acts: Mercury · What happens: come up, hold · To what, where: wonderful golden axe
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 (Mercury), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 held | nsubj |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 axe | det |
| 9 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 axe | amod |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 axe | amod |
| 11 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Mercury | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | Mercury | a wonderful golden axe | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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