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title: The Workman seized it greedily, and declared that truly it was the v… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Workman seized it greedily, and declared that truly it was the very same axe that he had lost. Who acts: Workman, axe, Jackdaw. 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 138

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The Workman seized it greedily, and declared that truly it was the very same axe that he had lost.

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**Who acts:** Workman, axe, Jackdaw · **What happens:** seize, declare, be, lose · **To what, where:** axe, same axe

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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, axe, Jackdaw), 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:pg21:14:138
# text = The Workman seized it greedily, and declared that truly it was the very same axe that he had lost.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Workman	Workman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | the Workman | axe |  |  |  | greedily *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Workman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | axe | the same axe |  |  |  | truly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | past · perfect | Jackdaw |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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