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title: Every day he went to the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it pi… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Every day he went to the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it piece by piece to make sure it was all there. Who acts: Miser, spot, piece. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miser, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Miser, sentence 2

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Every day he went to the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it piece by piece to make sure it was all there.

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**Who acts:** Miser, spot, piece · **What happens:** go, dig up, count, make, be · **To what, where:** spot, treasure

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miser. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miser, spot, piece), 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:pg19994:106:2
# text = Every day he went to the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it piece by piece to make sure it was all there.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Miser |  |  | the spot | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **dig up** | participle | the spot *not said here* | the treasure |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 3 | **count** | past | Miser *not said here* | treasure |  |  |  | by piece | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Miser *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **is** | past | piece |  |  |  |  | all, there *property* | tree rules |

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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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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