Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 130
On his saying that it was not his, Mercury disappeared beneath the water a second time, returned with a silver axe in his hand, and again asked the Workman if it were his.
Who acts: saying, Mercury, Jackdaw · What happens: not be, disappear, return, ask, be, say · To what, where: Jackdaw, saying, second time, Workman · 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 (saying, Mercury, Jackdaw), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 saying | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 saying | nmod:poss |
| 3 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disappeared | obl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 his | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 his | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 his | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 his | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 saying | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saying | punct |
| 10 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 disappeared | nsubj |
| 11 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disappeared | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disappeared | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 returned | punct |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 time | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 axe | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 axe | det |
| 22 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 axe | amod |
| 23 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 axe | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 asked | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 asked | cc |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 asked | advmod |
| 30 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 disappeared | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Workman | det |
| 32 | Workman | Workman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 asked | obj |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 his | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 his | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 his | cop |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 asked | ccomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | saying | Jackdaw | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | Mercury | Jackdaw's saying | time | beneath the water | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 3 | return | participle | a second time not said here | with a silver axe in Jackdaw's hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Mercury not said here | the Workman | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent workman=Recipient | |||
| 5 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | saying | Jackdaw | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say | Jackdaw | nom saying «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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