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title: The Miller and his Son quickly scrambled down, and a short time late… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Miller and his Son quickly scrambled down, and a short time later, the market place was thrown into an uproar as the two came along carrying the Donkey slung from a pole. Who acts: Miller, two, Donkey. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, with its de
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# The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 20

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The Miller and his Son quickly scrambled down, and a short time later, the market place was thrown into an uproar as the two came along carrying the Donkey slung from a pole.

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**Who acts:** Miller, two, Donkey · **What happens:** scramble down, throw, come along, carry, sling · **To what, where:** market place, uproar, pole

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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, two, Donkey), 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:pg19994:134:20
# text = The Miller and his Son quickly scrambled down, and a short time later, the market place was thrown into an uproar as the two came along carrying the Donkey slung from a pole.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	scrambled	scramble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
28	along	along	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Donkey	Donkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	slung	sling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scramble down** | past | the Miller and way's Son |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | past · passive |  | the market place |  |  |  | into a uproar *result*; late *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into uproar=Result |
| 3 | **come along** | past | the two |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | gerund | the two *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sling** | past | the Donkey |  |  | a pole |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from pole=Initial\_Location |

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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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