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title: A Farmer was driving his wagon along a miry country road after a hea… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Farmer was driving his wagon along a miry country road after a heavy rain. Who acts: Farmer. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 1

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A Farmer was driving his wagon along a miry country road after a heavy rain.

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**Who acts:** Farmer · **What happens:** drive · **To what, where:** wagon, miry country road

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Farmer), 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:pg19994:11:1
# text = A Farmer was driving his wagon along a miry country road after a heavy rain.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	miry	miry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past · progressive | a Farmer | Farmer's wagon |  | a miry country road after a heavy rain |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wagon=Theme along road=Trajectory |

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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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