Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 131
When the Workman said it was not, he dived into the pool for the third time and brought up the axe that had been lost.
Who acts: Workman, Jackdaw · What happens: say, dive, bring up, lose · To what, where: pool, axe · 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 (Workman, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Workman | det |
| 3 | Workman | Workman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dived | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 not | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 not | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dived | nsubj |
| 10 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 pool | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pool | det |
| 13 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dived | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dived | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dived | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 brought | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 axe | det |
| 22 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lost | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 lost | aux:pass |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 axe | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Workman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dive | past | Jackdaw | the pool | time | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pool=Location | |||
| 3 | bring up | past | Jackdaw not said here | the axe | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent axe=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect · passive | the axe | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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