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title: "Look," said one, "a great ship rides in from distant lands, bearing… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Look," said one, "a great ship rides in from distant lands, bearing rich treasures!" Who acts: great ship. 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 3

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"Look," said one, "a great ship rides in from distant lands, bearing rich treasures!"

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**Who acts:** great ship · **What happens:** look, say, ride, bear · **To what, where:** one, distant lands, rich treasures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (great ship), 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:pg19994:51:3
# text = "Look," said one, "a great ship rides in from distant lands, bearing rich treasures!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rides	ride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past |  | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ride** *in a quote* | present | a great ship |  |  | distant lands |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from land=Trajectory |
| 4 | **bear** *in a quote* | gerund | a great ship *not said here* | rich treasures |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=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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