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title: He was not getting rich fast enough. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He was not getting rich fast enough. Who acts: Countryman. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goose and the Golden Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Goose and the Golden Egg, sentence 4

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He was not getting rich fast enough.

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**Who acts:** Countryman · **What happens:** not get

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goose and the Golden Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Countryman), 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:pg19994:82:4
# text = He was not getting rich fast enough.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **get** | past · progressive | Countryman |  |  |  |  | enough, fast, rich *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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