Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 53
A CERTAIN MAN made a wooden image of Mercury and offered it for sale.
Who acts: CERTAIN MAN · What happens: make, offer, image · To what, where: wooden image, reply, Mercury
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CERTAIN MAN), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 MAN | det |
| 2 | CERTAIN | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 MAN | amod |
| 3 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 image | det |
| 6 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 image | amod |
| 7 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Mercury | case |
| 9 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 image | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 offered | cc |
| 11 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 offered | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 sale | case |
| 14 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | a CERTAIN MAN | a wooden image of Mercury | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Product | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | a CERTAIN MAN not said here | reply | for sale goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme for sale=Goal | |||
| 3 | image | Mercury | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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