Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 128
Mercury appeared and demanded the cause of his tears.
Who acts: Mercury · What happens: appear, demand, cause · To what, where: cause, tears
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. 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 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 demanded | cc |
| 4 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appeared | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cause | det |
| 6 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 demanded | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tears | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tears | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cause | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Mercury | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | Mercury not said here | the cause of Jackdaw's tears | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cause=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | cause | Jackdaw's tears | nom cause «event 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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