Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 126

A WORKMAN, felling wood by the side of a river, let his axe drop by accident into a deep pool.

Who acts: WORKMAN · What happens: fell, let · To what, where: wood, axe drop, deep pool

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 (WORKMAN), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 WORKMAN	det
2	WORKMAN	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 felling	punct
4	felling	fell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 WORKMAN	acl
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felling	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felling	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 drop	nmod:poss
15	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drop	compound
16	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obj
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 accident	case
18	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obl
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 pool	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pool	det
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pool	amod
22	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fell	gerund	a WORKMAN not said here	wood				by the side of a river	tree rules
2	let	infinitive	a WORKMAN	Jackdaw's axe drop		a deep pool		by accident	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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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