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title: Next day he was put into harness again and that evening he was very… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Next day he was put into harness again and that evening he was very downhearted indeed. Who acts: Mule. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mule, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mule, sentence 5

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Next day he was put into harness again and that evening he was very downhearted indeed.

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**Who acts:** Mule · **What happens:** put, be · **To what, where:** Mule, harness

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mule. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mule), 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:pg19994:74:5
# text = Next day he was put into harness again and that evening he was very downhearted indeed.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	downhearted	downhearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
16	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · passive |  | Mule |  | harness | again; day | indeed *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **is** | past | Mule |  |  |  | evening | downhearted *property* | tree rules |

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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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