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title: Both Travelers rushed to the beach, but there they found nothing but… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Both Travelers rushed to the beach, but there they found nothing but a water-soaked log. Who acts: Travelers. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Sea, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Sea, sentence 10

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Both Travelers rushed to the beach, but there they found nothing but a water-soaked log.

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**Who acts:** Travelers · **What happens:** rush, find, soak · **To what, where:** nothing

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Travelers), 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:pg19994:51:10
# text = Both Travelers rushed to the beach, but there they found nothing but a water-soaked log.
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	Travelers	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	obj	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	soaked	soak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | both Travelers |  |  |  |  | to the beach *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beach=Result |
| 2 | **find** | past | Travelers *= traveler* | nothing |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 3 | **soak** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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