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title: At the next turnstile they overtook some women carrying market baske… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: At the next turnstile they overtook some women carrying market baskets loaded with vegetables and other things to sell. Who acts: Miller, women. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 12

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At the next turnstile they overtook some women carrying market baskets loaded with vegetables and other things to sell.

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**Who acts:** Miller, women · **What happens:** overtake, carry, load, sell · **To what, where:** women, next turnstile, market baskets

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miller, women), 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:pg19994:134:12
# text = At the next turnstile they overtook some women carrying market baskets loaded with vegetables and other things to sell.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	turnstile	turnstile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	overtook	overtake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	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 | **overtake** | past | Miller | some women |  | the next turnstile |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | some women *not said here* | market baskets |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
| 3 | **load** | participle |  | market baskets *not said here* |  |  |  | with vegetables and other things | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with vegetable=Theme |
| 4 | **sell** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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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