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title: A rich old farmer, who felt that he had not many more days to live,… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A rich old farmer, who felt that he had not many more days to live, called his sons to his bedside. Who acts: rich old farmer, farmer. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and His Sons, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and His Sons, sentence 1

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A rich old farmer, who felt that he had not many more days to live, called his sons to his bedside.

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**Who acts:** rich old farmer, farmer · **What happens:** feel, have, live, call · **To what, where:** rich old farmer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and His Sons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich old farmer, 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:pg19994:80:1
# text = A rich old farmer, who felt that he had not many more days to live, called his sons to his bedside.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	bedside	bedside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | a rich old farmer |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | farmer |  |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle · passive |  | a rich old farmer |  |  |  | to farmer's bedside | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme son=Result |

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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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