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title: Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a wi… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest. Who acts: Two Travellers. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Plane Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Plane Tree, sentence 1

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Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest.

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**Who acts:** Two Travellers · **What happens:** walk, seek, rest, shade · **To what, where:** noonday sun, shade, widespreading tree

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Plane Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two Travellers), 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:pg19994:22:1
# text = Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	Travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	noonday	noonday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	widespreading	widespreading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund | Two Travellers *not said here* |  |  | the noonday sun |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Trajectory |
| 2 | **seek** | past | Two Travellers | the shade of a widespreading tree |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shade=Theme |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Two Travellers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shade** |  |  | a widespreading tree |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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