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title: Neither would give way, and so they both fell, to be swept away by t… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither would give way, and so they both fell, to be swept away by the roaring torrent below. Who acts: Goats, roaring torrent. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Goats, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Two Goats, sentence 9

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Neither would give way, and so they both fell, to be swept away by the roaring torrent below.

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**Who acts:** Goats, roaring torrent · **What happens:** give, fall, sweep away · **To what, where:** way

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Goats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goats, roaring torrent), 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:pg19994:37:9
# text = Neither would give way, and so they both fell, to be swept away by the roaring torrent below.
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	swept	sweep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	roaring	roaring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	torrent	torrent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	below	below	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would |  | way |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Goats *= goat* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sweep away** | to-infinitive · passive | the roaring torrent |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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