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title: The Woodman told what had happened, and straightway the kind Mercury… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Woodman told what had happened, and straightway the kind Mercury dived into the pool. Who acts: Woodman, straightway. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Mercury and the Woodman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 8

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The Woodman told what had happened, and straightway the kind Mercury dived into the pool.

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**Who acts:** Woodman, straightway · **What happens:** tell, happen, dive · **To what, where:** pool · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Mercury and the Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman, straightway), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:93:8
# text = The Woodman told what had happened, and straightway the kind Mercury dived into the pool.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Woodman |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dive** | past | straightway |  |  | the pool |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pool=Location |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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