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title: Now the heat had affected the Driver as much as it had the Traveler,… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the heat had affected the Driver as much as it had the Traveler, and even more, for he had been walking. Who acts: heat, Traveler. 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 5

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Now the heat had affected the Driver as much as it had the Traveler, and even more, for he had been walking.

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**Who acts:** heat, Traveler · **What happens:** affect, have, walk · **To what, where:** heat, Traveler

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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 (heat, Traveler), 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:pg19994:133:5
# text = Now the heat had affected the Driver as much as it had the Traveler, and even more, for he had been walking.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux	_	_
24	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | past · perfect · passive |  | the heat |  |  | now |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer driver=Result |
| 2 | **have** | past | heat | the Traveler |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveler=Patient |
| 3 | **walk** | past · perfect · progressive | Traveler |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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