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title: Two men were traveling in company along the road when one of them pi… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Two men were traveling in company along the road when one of them picked up a well-filled purse. Who acts: Two men, one. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Purse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Purse, sentence 1

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Two men were traveling in company along the road when one of them picked up a well-filled purse.

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**Who acts:** Two men, one · **What happens:** travel, pick up, fill · **To what, where:** company, filled purse

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Purse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two men, one), 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:pg19994:25:1
# text = Two men were traveling in company along the road when one of them picked up a well-filled purse.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	traveling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	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 | **travel** | past · progressive | Two men |  |  | company |  | along the road | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in company=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pick up** | past | one of men | a filled purse |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Topic |
| 3 | **fill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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