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title: A Stork of a very simple and trusting nature had been asked by a gay… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Stork of a very simple and trusting nature had been asked by a gay party of Cranes to visit a field that had been newly planted. Who acts: gay party. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Stork, sentence 1

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A Stork of a very simple and trusting nature had been asked by a gay party of Cranes to visit a field that had been newly planted.

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**Who acts:** gay party · **What happens:** trust, ask, visit, plant · **To what, where:** Stork, field · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gay party), 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:pg19994:23:1
# text = A Stork of a very simple and trusting nature had been asked by a gay party of Cranes to visit a field that had been newly planted.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	trusting	trust	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | gerund | a gay party of Cranes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · perfect · passive | a gay party of Cranes | a Stork of a simple nature |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **visit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a field |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **plant** | past · perfect · passive |  | a field |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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