--- title: Mercury appeared to him just as he hoped he would; and having learne… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: Mercury appeared to him just as he hoped he would; and having learned the cause of his grief, plunged into the stream and brought up a golden axe, inquiring if he had lost it. Who acts: Mercury, Jackdaw. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg21:14:137 # text = Mercury appeared to him just as he hoped he would; and having learned the cause of his grief, plunged into the stream and brought up a golden axe, inquiring if he had lost it. 1 Mercury Mercury PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hoped hope VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 nsubj _ _ 14 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 plunged plunge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 inquiring inquire VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 ccomp _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | Mercury | | Jackdaw | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hope** | past | Jackdaw | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **have** | gerund | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **learn** | past | | the cause of Jackdaw's grief | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic | | 5 | **plunge** | participle | | Jackdaw's grief *not said here* | | the stream | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into stream=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **bring up** | past | | a golden axe | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent axe=Patient | | 7 | **inquire** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Jackdaw | axe | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 9 | **cause** | | | Jackdaw's grief | | | | | nom cause «event 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. - ← previous: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/14/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/14/138/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/14/)