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title: Some Cranes saw a farmer plowing a large field. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Some Cranes saw a farmer plowing a large field. Who acts: Cranes, farmer. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Cranes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 1

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Some Cranes saw a farmer plowing a large field.

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**Who acts:** Cranes, farmer · **What happens:** see, plow · **To what, where:** farmer, large field

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Cranes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cranes, farmer), 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:pg19994:79:1
# text = Some Cranes saw a farmer plowing a large field.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	plowing	plow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | some Cranes | a farmer |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer farmer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **plow** | gerund | a farmer *not said here* | a large field |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial\_Location |

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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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