Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 41
THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces, making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk.
Who acts: WOODCUTTER · What happens: cut down, split, make, divide · To what, where: Mountain Oak, Master, pieces, wedges, trunk
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WOODCUTTER), 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 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 WOODCUTTER | det |
| 2 | WOODCUTTER | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 split | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 WOODCUTTER | acl |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 cut | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Oak | det |
| 6 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Oak | compound |
| 7 | Oak | Oak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Oak | cc |
| 9 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 split | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pieces | case |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 split | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 making | punct |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 split | advcl |
| 15 | wedges | wedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 making | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 branches | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 branches | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 branches | amod |
| 19 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wedges | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 dividing | mark |
| 21 | dividing | divide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 making | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trunk | det |
| 23 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dividing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 split | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut down | participle | the WOODCUTTER not said here | a Mountain Oak | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | split | past | the WOODCUTTER | Master | pieces | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | the WOODCUTTER not said here | wedges of Master's own branches | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wedge=Product | ||||
| 4 | divide | gerund | the WOODCUTTER not said here | the trunk | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme |
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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