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title: But Ciccu bought an axe and a saw, and cut down a pine tree in the n… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Ciccu bought an axe and a saw, and cut down a pine tree in the nearest wood, and began to hew it into planks. Who acts: Ciccu. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 49

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But Ciccu bought an axe and a saw, and cut down a pine tree in the nearest wood, and began to hew it into planks.

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**Who acts:** Ciccu · **What happens:** buy, cut down, begin, hew · **To what, where:** axe, pine tree, nearest wood, tree, planks

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu), 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:pg5615:38:49
# text = But Ciccu bought an axe and a saw, and cut down a pine tree in the nearest wood, and began to hew it into planks.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	saw	saw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	hew	hew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	planks	plank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | Ciccu | a axe and a saw |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 2 | **cut down** | participle | Ciccu *not said here* | a pine tree |  | the nearest wood |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Ciccu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hew** | to-infinitive | Ciccu *not said here* | tree |  |  |  | into planks *result* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into plank=Result |

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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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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