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title: While they were disputing with much heat and bluster, a Traveler pas… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: While they were disputing with much heat and bluster, a Traveler passed along the road wrapped in a cloak. Who acts: Wind. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 2

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While they were disputing with much heat and bluster, a Traveler passed along the road wrapped in a cloak.

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**Who acts:** Wind · **What happens:** dispute, pass, wrap · **To what, where:** Traveler, road, cloak

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wind), 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:pg19994:143:2
# text = While they were disputing with much heat and bluster, a Traveler passed along the road wrapped in a cloak.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	disputing	dispute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bluster	bluster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dispute** | past · progressive | Wind |  |  |  |  | with much heat and bluster and a Traveler | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with heat=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | participle |  | a Traveler *not said here* |  | the road |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along road=Location |
| 3 | **wrap** | participle |  | the road *not said here* |  | a cloak |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloak=Destination |

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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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