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title: The farmer climbed down from his seat and stood beside the wagon loo… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The farmer climbed down from his seat and stood beside the wagon looking at it but without making the least effort to get it out of the rut. 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 3

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The farmer climbed down from his seat and stood beside the wagon looking at it but without making the least effort to get it out of the rut.

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**Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** climb down, stand, look, make, get · **To what, where:** seat, wagon, least effort, effort, rut

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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:pg19994:11:3
# text = The farmer climbed down from his seat and stood beside the wagon looking at it but without making the least effort to get it out of the rut.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rut	rut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb down** | past | the farmer |  |  | Farmer's seat |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from seat=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the farmer *not said here* |  |  | the wagon |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside wagon=Location |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at wagon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | gerund |  | the least effort |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | the farmer *not said here* | effort |  | the rut |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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