Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 40

They had not gone far before they saw the owner of the axe pursuing them, and he who had picked up the axe said, “We are undone.”

Who acts: friend, axe · What happens: not go, see, pursue, pick up, say, undo · To what, where: owner, friend, man, We · 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 (friend, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 saw	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 owner	det
10	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 axe	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 axe	det
13	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 owner	nmod
14	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 axe	acl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pursuing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 picked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 picked	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 picked	nsubj:pass
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 picked	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 picked	aux
21	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gone	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 picked	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 axe	det
24	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 picked	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 undone	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 undone	punct
28	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 undone	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 undone	aux:pass
30	undone	undo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gone	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	friend		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	friend	the owner of the axe		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer owner=Stimulus
3	pursue	gerund	the axe not said here	friend		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	pick up	past · perfect · passive		man		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	say speech: assert	past	the axe			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	undo in a quote	present · passive		We		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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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