Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 137

Mercury appeared to him just as he hoped he would; and having learned the cause of his grief, plunged into the stream and brought up a golden axe, inquiring if he had lost it.

Who acts: Mercury, Jackdaw · What happens: appear, hope, have, learn, plunge, bring up · To what, where: Jackdaw, cause, grief, stream, golden axe, axe

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, 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	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 appeared	nsubj
2	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 appeared	obl
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 hoped	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 hoped	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hoped	nsubj
8	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 appeared	advcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 would	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hoped	ccomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 learned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 learned	cc
13	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 learned	nsubj
14	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 appeared	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cause	det
16	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 learned	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 grief	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 grief	nmod:poss
19	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cause	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 plunged	punct
21	plunged	plunge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 grief	acl
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 stream	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stream	det
24	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 plunged	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 brought	cc
26	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 learned	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 brought	compound:prt
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 axe	det
29	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 axe	amod
30	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brought	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 inquiring	punct
32	inquiring	inquire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 brought	advcl
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 lost	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lost	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 lost	aux
36	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 inquiring	ccomp
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lost	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	appear	past	Mercury		Jackdaw		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hope	past	Jackdaw				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	have	gerund					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	learn	past		the cause of Jackdaw's grief			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
5	plunge	participle		Jackdaw's grief not said here		the stream	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stream=Initial_Location
6	bring up	past		a golden axe			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent axe=Patient
7	inquire speech: other	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	lose a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Jackdaw	axe			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
9	cause			Jackdaw's grief			nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

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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