--- title: THE TRAVELLER AND FORTUNE A Traveller, exhausted with fatigue after… — Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop · tree and pragmatics description: THE TRAVELLER AND FORTUNE A Traveller, exhausted with fatigue after a long journey, sank down at the very brink of a deep well and presently fell asleep. Who acts: Traveller. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Traveller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg11339:1190 # text = THE TRAVELLER AND FORTUNE A Traveller, exhausted with fatigue after a long journey, sank down at the very brink of a deep well and presently fell asleep. # source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18 1 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 TRAVELLER traveller NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ _ 3 AND and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 FORTUNE Fortune PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Traveller traveller NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 exhausted exhaust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 fatigue fatigue NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 16 sank sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 very very ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 brink brink NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 presently presently ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 29 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **exhaust** | participle | | a Traveller *not said here* | | | after a long journey | with fatigue | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **sink down** | past | a Traveller | | | the very brink of a deep well | | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **fall** | past | a Traveller *not said here* | | | | | asleep, presently *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). **Annotation:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`mova-tales-silver-en.conllu`), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence `gutenberg:pg11339:1190`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.3/). - ← previous: [Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by…, 1107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11339/1107/) - next →: [Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/4/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11339/)