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title: Two Men were traveling in company through a forest, when, all at onc… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Two Men were traveling in company through a forest, when, all at once, a huge Bear crashed out of the brush near them. Who acts: Two Men, huge Bear. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Two Travelers and a Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, Two Travelers and a Bear, sentence 1

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Two Men were traveling in company through a forest, when, all at once, a huge Bear crashed out of the brush near them.

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**Who acts:** Two Men, huge Bear · **What happens:** travel, crash out · **To what, where:** company, brush

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Two Travelers and a Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two Men, huge Bear), 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:pg19994:118:1
# text = Two Men were traveling in company through a forest, when, all at once, a huge Bear crashed out of the brush near them.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	traveling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past · progressive | Two Men |  |  | company |  | through a forest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in company=Trajectory |
| 2 | **crash out** | past | a huge Bear | the brush near Men |  |  |  | all *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Patient |

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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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