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title: All he did was to curse his bad luck and call loudly on Hercules to… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: All he did was to curse his bad luck and call loudly on Hercules to come to his aid. Who acts: Farmer, All. 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 4

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All he did was to curse his bad luck and call loudly on Hercules to come to his aid.

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**Who acts:** Farmer, All · **What happens:** do, be, call, come · **To what, where:** Hercules, aid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, All), 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:pg19994:11:4
# text = All he did was to curse his bad luck and call loudly on Hercules to come to his aid.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	curse	curse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Farmer |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | All |  |  |  |  | curse *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive | All *not said here* |  |  | Hercules |  | loudly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | All *not said here* |  |  | Farmer's aid |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial\_Location |

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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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