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title: So he loaded his sling with stones and killed several of the Cranes. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So he loaded his sling with stones and killed several of the Cranes. Who acts: 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 16

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So he loaded his sling with stones and killed several of the Cranes.

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**Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** load, kill · **To what, where:** sling, several

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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 (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:pg19994:79:16
# text = So he loaded his sling with stones and killed several of the Cranes.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loaded	load	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sling	sling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **load** | past | farmer | farmer's sling |  |  |  | with stones | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent sling=Destination with stone=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past | farmer *not said here* | several of the Cranes |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent several=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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