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title: The two comrades traveled along in the very best of spirits and with… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The two comrades traveled along in the very best of spirits and without meeting any adventure to speak of. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 3

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The two comrades traveled along in the very best of spirits and without meeting any adventure to speak of.

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**What happens:** travel, meet, speak · **To what, where:** two comrades, adventure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg19994:7:3
# text = The two comrades traveled along in the very best of spirits and without meeting any adventure to speak of.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	traveled	travel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	parataxis	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | participle |  | the two comrades *not said here* |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | gerund |  | any adventure |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | any adventure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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