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title: He made so many trips that a Thief, who had been observing him, gues… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He made so many trips that a Thief, who had been observing him, guessed what it was the Miser had hidden, and one night quietly dug up the treasure and made off with it. Who acts: Miser, many trips, Thief. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miser, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Aesop for Children, The Miser, sentence 3

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He made so many trips that a Thief, who had been observing him, guessed what it was the Miser had hidden, and one night quietly dug up the treasure and made off with it.

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**Who acts:** Miser, many trips, Thief · **What happens:** make, thief, observe, guess, hide, dig up · **To what, where:** many trips, Miser, Thief, one night

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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, many trips, Thief), 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:pg19994:106:3
# text = He made so many trips that a Thief, who had been observing him, guessed what it was the Miser had hidden, and one night quietly dug up the treasure and made off with it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux	_	_
13	observing	observe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Miser	Miser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Miser | many trips |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Product |
| 2 | **thief** |  | many trips |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **observe** | past · perfect · progressive | a Thief | Miser |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 4 | **guess** | past | Miser *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 5 | **hide** | past · perfect · passive |  | Thief |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **dig up** | participle · passive |  | one night |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary treasure=Result |
| 7 | **make off** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with treasure | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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