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title: The owner of the Ass went with the Traveler, walking beside him to d… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The owner of the Ass went with the Traveler, walking beside him to drive the Ass and point out the way. Who acts: owner. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and Its Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass and Its Shadow, sentence 2

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The owner of the Ass went with the Traveler, walking beside him to drive the Ass and point out the way.

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**Who acts:** owner · **What happens:** go, walk, drive, point out · **To what, where:** Ass, way

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and Its Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owner), 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:pg19994:133:2
# text = The owner of the Ass went with the Traveler, walking beside him to drive the Ass and point out the way.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Ass	Ass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the owner of the Ass |  |  |  |  | with the Traveler | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with traveler=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | the owner of the Ass *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside Traveler | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **drive** | to-infinitive | the owner of the Ass *not said here* | the Ass |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme ass=Trajectory |
| 4 | **point out** | infinitive | the owner of the Ass *not said here* | the way |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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