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title: And when the farmer put his shoulder to the wheel and urged on the h… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the farmer put his shoulder to the wheel and urged on the horses, the wagon moved very readily, and soon the Farmer was riding along in great content and with a good lesson learned. Who acts: farmer, wagon, riding. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner, w
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# The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 9

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And when the farmer put his shoulder to the wheel and urged on the horses, the wagon moved very readily, and soon the Farmer was riding along in great content and with a good lesson learned.

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**Who acts:** farmer, wagon, riding · **What happens:** put, urge, move, ride along, learn · **To what, where:** shoulder, great content · **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, wagon, riding), 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:pg19994:11:9
# text = And when the farmer put his shoulder to the wheel and urged on the horses, the wagon moved very readily, and soon the Farmer was riding along in great content and with a good lesson learned.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	urged	urge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	csubj	_	_
29	along	along	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
38	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the farmer | Farmer's shoulder |  |  |  | to the wheel | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Goal |
| 2 | **urge** | participle | the farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the horses | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **move** | past | the wagon |  |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ride along** | past · progressive | the Farmer |  |  | great content and a good lesson |  | along, soon *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **learn** | past | riding |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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