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title: No hidden gold did they find; but at harvest time when they had sett… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: No hidden gold did they find; but at harvest time when they had settled their accounts and had pocketed a rich profit far greater than that of any of their neighbors, they understood that the treasure their father had told them about was the wealth of a bountiful crop, and that in their industry had
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# The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and His Sons, sentence 8

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No hidden gold did they find; but at harvest time when they had settled their accounts and had pocketed a rich profit far greater than that of any of their neighbors, they understood that the treasure their father had told them about was the wealth of a bountiful crop, and that in their industry had they found the treasure.

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**Who acts:** hidden gold, sons, that · **What happens:** find, settle, pocket, understand, tell, be · **To what, where:** sons, rich profit, treasure · **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 (hidden gold, sons, that), 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:pg19994:80:8
# text = No hidden gold did they find; but at harvest time when they had settled their accounts and had pocketed a rich profit far greater than that of any of their neighbors, they understood that the treasure their father had told them about was the wealth of a bountiful crop, and that in their industry had they found the treasure.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	pocketed	pocket	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	ccomp	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	iobj	_	_
44	about	about	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	bountiful	bountiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
54	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	58	nsubj	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
59	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	ccomp	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · do-support | no hidden gold |  |  |  | time |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **settle** | past · perfect · passive |  | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pocket** | past · perfect |  | a rich profit |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent profit=Theme |
| 4 | **understand** | past | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the treasure | sons *= son* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about the wealth; of a bountiful crop | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **find** | past | sons *= son* | the treasure |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic |
| 9 | **account** |  | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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