Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 64
The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter
What happens: image · To what, where: Mercury
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Image | det |
| 2 | Image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Mercury | case |
| 4 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Image | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Carpenter | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Carpenter | det |
| 7 | Carpenter | Carpenter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mercury | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | image | Mercury and the Carpenter | nom image «cognition 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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