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title: THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces, makin… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 41

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THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces, making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk.

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**Who acts:** WOODCUTTER · **What happens:** cut down, split, make, divide · **To what, where:** Mountain Oak, Master, pieces, wedges, trunk

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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.

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**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:pg21:10:41
# text = THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces, making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	WOODCUTTER	woodcutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Oak	Oak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
9	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	wedges	wedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	dividing	divide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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