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title: A WORKMAN, felling wood by the side of a river, let his axe drop by… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A WORKMAN, felling wood by the side of a river, let his axe drop by accident into a deep pool. Who acts: WORKMAN. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 126

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

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

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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.

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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:pg21:14:126
# text = A WORKMAN, felling wood by the side of a river, let his axe drop by accident into a deep pool.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	WORKMAN	workman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	felling	fell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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