---
title: Mercury, displeased at his knavery, not only took away the golden ax… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Mercury, displeased at his knavery, not only took away the golden axe, but refused to recover for him the axe he had thrown into the pool. Who acts: Mercury, Jackdaw. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/14/139/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/) / [Aesop’s Fables, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/14/) / 139

# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 139

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mercury, displeased at his knavery, not only took away the golden axe, but refused to recover for him the axe he had thrown into the pool.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Mercury, Jackdaw · **What happens:** displease, not take away, refuse, not recover, throw · **To what, where:** Mercury, knavery, golden axe, axe, pool

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. 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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg21:14:139
# text = Mercury, displeased at his knavery, not only took away the golden axe, but refused to recover for him the axe he had thrown into the pool.
1	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	displeased	displease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	knavery	knavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	away	away	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **displease** | participle |  | Mercury *not said here* |  | Jackdaw's knavery |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **take away** | past | Mercury | the golden axe |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 3 | **refuse** | past | Mercury *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **recover** | to-infinitive | Mercury *not said here* | the axe |  |  |  | for Jackdaw | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 5 | **throw** | past · perfect | Jackdaw | the axe *not said here* |  |  |  | into the pool *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer axe=Theme into pool=Result |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/14/138/)
- next →: [Aesop’s Fables, part 13, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/15/1/)
- ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/14/)