Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 138
The Workman seized it greedily, and declared that truly it was the very same axe that he had lost.
Who acts: Workman, axe, Jackdaw · What happens: seize, declare, be, lose · To what, where: axe, same 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 (Workman, axe, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Workman | det |
| 2 | Workman | Workman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | 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 seized | obj |
| 5 | greedily | greedily | ADV | _ | 3 seized | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 declared | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 declared | cc |
| 8 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 axe | mark |
| 10 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 16 axe | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 axe | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 axe | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 axe | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 same | advmod |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 axe | amod |
| 16 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 declared | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 lost | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lost | aux |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 axe | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the Workman | axe | greedily property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | the Workman not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | axe | the same axe | truly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | Jackdaw | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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