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title: So, as soon as the Farmer had finished planting and had gone home, d… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So, as soon as the Farmer had finished planting and had gone home, down they flew to the field, and began to eat as fast as they could. Who acts: Cranes. 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 4

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So, as soon as the Farmer had finished planting and had gone home, down they flew to the field, and began to eat as fast as they could.

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**Who acts:** Cranes · **What happens:** finish, go, fly, begin, eat · **To what, where:** Farmer

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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), 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:pg19994:79:4
# text = So, as soon as the Farmer had finished planting and had gone home, down they flew to the field, and began to eat as fast as they could.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
10	planting	planting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Farmer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | home, soon *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | past | Cranes *= crane* |  |  |  |  | to the field *result*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to field=Result |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Cranes *= crane* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Cranes *= crane* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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