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title: The object they saw came ever nearer the shore. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The object they saw came ever nearer the shore. Who acts: treasures, object. 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 4

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The object they saw came ever nearer the shore.

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**Who acts:** treasures, object · **What happens:** see, come · **To what, where:** object

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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 (treasures, object), 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:pg19994:51:4
# text = The object they saw came ever nearer the shore.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | treasures *= treasure* | the object *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | past | the object |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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