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title: At first his beams were gentle, and in the pleasant warmth after the… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: At first his beams were gentle, and in the pleasant warmth after the bitter cold of the North Wind, the Traveler unfastened his cloak and let it hang loosely from his shoulders. Who acts: beams, cloak, Sun. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun, with its depende
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# The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 9

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At first his beams were gentle, and in the pleasant warmth after the bitter cold of the North Wind, the Traveler unfastened his cloak and let it hang loosely from his shoulders.

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**Who acts:** beams, cloak, Sun · **What happens:** be, unfasten, let, hang, beam · **To what, where:** cloak, pleasant warmth, shoulders

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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 (beams, cloak, Sun), 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:pg19994:143:9
# text = At first his beams were gentle, and in the pleasant warmth after the bitter cold of the North Wind, the Traveler unfastened his cloak and let it hang loosely from his shoulders.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Traveler	Traveler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	loosely	loosely	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | past | Sun's beams |  |  |  |  | gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **unfasten** | past |  | Sun's cloak |  | the pleasant warmth after the bitter cold of the North Wind and the Traveler |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | cloak |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hang** | infinitive | cloak *not said here* |  |  | Sun's shoulders |  | loosely *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **beam** |  | Sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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