Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 129

After he told him his misfortune, Mercury plunged into the stream, and, bringing up a golden axe, inquired if that were the one he had lost.

Who acts: Jackdaw, Mercury, that · What happens: tell, plunge, bring up, inquire, be, lose · To what, where: misfortune, shepherd, stream, golden axe, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jackdaw, Mercury, that), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	3 told	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 plunged	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 misfortune	nmod:poss
6	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
8	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 plunged	nsubj
9	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 stream	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stream	det
12	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plunged	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bringing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bringing	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bringing	punct
16	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 plunged	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 bringing	compound:prt
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 axe	det
19	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 axe	amod
20	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bringing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 inquired	punct
22	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 axe	acl
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 one	mark
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 one	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 one	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 inquired	advcl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lost	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 lost	aux
30	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 one	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 plunged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Jackdaw	Jackdaw's misfortune	shepherd		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient misfortune=Topic
2	plunge	past	Mercury			the stream	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stream=Initial_Location
3	bring up	gerund	Mercury not said here	a golden axe			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent axe=Patient
4	inquire speech: other	participle		a golden axe not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	that	the one			tree rules
6	lose	past · perfect	Jackdaw	the one not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality

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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