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title: So the Earthen Pot at last consented, and the two set out side by si… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Earthen Pot at last consented, and the two set out side by side, jolting along on three stubby legs first to this side, then to that, and bumping into each other at every step. Who acts: two. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Pots, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Aesop for Children, The Two Pots, sentence 10

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So the Earthen Pot at last consented, and the two set out side by side, jolting along on three stubby legs first to this side, then to that, and bumping into each other at every step.

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**Who acts:** two · **What happens:** consent, set out, jolt, bump · **To what, where:** Earthen Pot, side, three stubby legs, each

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Pots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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:pg19994:81:10
# text = So the Earthen Pot at last consented, and the two set out side by side, jolting along on three stubby legs first to this side, then to that, and bumping into each other at every step.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Earthen	Earthen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
7	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	jolting	jolt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	along	along	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	stubby	stubby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	bumping	bump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	34	obl	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	fixed	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
40	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | participle · passive |  | the Earthen Pot at last |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set out** | participle | the two | side |  |  |  | by side | tree rules |
| 3 | **jolt** | gerund | the two *not said here* |  |  | three stubby legs |  | to this side; along *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **bump** | gerund |  |  |  | each |  | at every step | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into each=Location |

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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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