Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 132
The Workman claimed it and expressed his joy at its recovery.
Who acts: Workman, Jackdaw, axe · What happens: claim, express, joy, recover · To what, where: axe, joy, recovery
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, axe), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Workman | det |
| 2 | Workman | Workman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 claimed | nsubj |
| 3 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 claimed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 expressed | cc |
| 6 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 claimed | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 joy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 expressed | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 recovery | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 recovery | nmod:poss |
| 11 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 expressed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 claimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past | the Workman | axe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | express | past | the Workman not said here | Jackdaw's joy | axe's recovery | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Theme | |||
| 3 | joy | Jackdaw | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | recover | axe | nom recovery «event intransitive»: 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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