Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 38
One of them picked up an axe that lay upon the path, and said, “I have found an axe.”
Who acts: picked axe · What happens: pick up, lie, say, find · To what, where: path, axe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (picked axe), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 axe | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 axe | amod |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 axe | det |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 axe | acl:relcl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 path | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 path | det |
| 12 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lay | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | aux |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 axe | det |
| 22 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 axe | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 axe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | participle | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lie | past | a picked axe | the path | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon path=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a picked axe not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | present · perfect | a picked axe = axe | a axe | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Topic |
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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