Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 69

No sooner had the man fitted a new handle to his axe from it, than he began to use it and quickly felled with his strokes the noblest giants of the forest.

Who acts: man · What happens: have, fit, begin, use, fell, stroke · To what, where: new handle, axe, handle

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 (man), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fitted	nsubj
6	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 handle	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 handle	amod
9	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fitted	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 axe	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 axe	nmod:poss
12	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fitted	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 axe	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 began	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fitted	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 use	mark
20	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 use	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 felled	cc
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	24 felled	advmod
24	felled	fell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 began	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 strokes	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 strokes	nmod:poss
27	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 felled	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 giants	det
29	noblest	noble	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 giants	amod
30	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 strokes	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 forest	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 forest	det
33	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 giants	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past			soon property	tree rules
2	fit	past	the man	a new handle	to MAN's axe from axe goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent handle=Patient to axe=Goal
3	begin	past	MAN			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	use	to-infinitive	MAN not said here	handle		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	fell	past	MAN not said here		with MAN's strokes the noblest giants of the forest; quickly property	tree rules
6	stroke		MAN			nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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