Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 133
Mercury, pleased with his honesty, gave him the golden and silver axes in addition to his own.
Who acts: Mercury · What happens: give · To what, where: golden axes, Jackdaw, addition
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 | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleased | punct |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Mercury | amod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 honesty | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 honesty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pleased | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mercury | punct |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 axes | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 axes | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 silver | cc |
| 13 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 golden | conj |
| 14 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 addition | case |
| 16 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 own | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 own | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gave | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Mercury | the golden axes | Jackdaw | addition | to Jackdaw's own | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ax=Theme |
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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