Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 139

Mercury, displeased at his knavery, not only took away the golden axe, but refused to recover for him the axe he had thrown into the pool.

Who acts: Mercury, Jackdaw · What happens: displease, not take away, refuse, not recover, throw · To what, where: Mercury, knavery, golden axe, axe, pool

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	10 took	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mercury	punct
3	displeased	displease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Mercury	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 knavery	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knavery	nmod:poss
6	knavery	knavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 displeased	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 took	advmod
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 took	advmod
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	away	away	ADP	_	10 took	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 axe	det
13	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 axe	amod
14	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 refused	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 refused	cc
17	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 recover	mark
19	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 refused	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 recover	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 axe	det
23	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 recover	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thrown	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thrown	aux
26	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 axe	acl:relcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 pool	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pool	det
29	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thrown	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	displease	participle		Mercury not said here	Jackdaw's knavery		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	not take away	past	Mercury	the golden axe			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
3	refuse	past	Mercury not said here				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not recover	to-infinitive	Mercury not said here	the axe		for Jackdaw	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
5	throw	past · perfect	Jackdaw	the axe not said here		into the pool result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer axe=Theme into pool=Result

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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