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title: When the work of plowing was done, they patiently watched him sow th… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: When the work of plowing was done, they patiently watched him sow the seed. Who acts: work, 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 2

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When the work of plowing was done, they patiently watched him sow the seed.

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**Who acts:** work, Cranes, farmer · **What happens:** plow, do, watch, sow · **To what, where:** work, farmer, seed

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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 (work, 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:pg19994:79:2
# text = When the work of plowing was done, they patiently watched him sow the seed.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	plowing	plow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	sow	sow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plow** | gerund | the work *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past · passive |  | the work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **watch** | past | Cranes *= crane* | farmer |  |  |  | patiently *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sow** | infinitive | farmer *not said here* | the seed |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seed=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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