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title: Then one fine day in early spring he found himself with not a penny… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Then one fine day in early spring he found himself with not a penny left, and no property save the clothes he wore. Who acts: fellow, property. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Spendthrift and the Swallow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Spendthrift and the Swallow, sentence 2

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Then one fine day in early spring he found himself with not a penny left, and no property save the clothes he wore.

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**Who acts:** fellow, property · **What happens:** find, leave, save, wear · **To what, where:** fellow, penny, clothes

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Spendthrift and the Swallow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, property), 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:pg19994:88:2
# text = Then one fine day in early spring he found himself with not a penny left, and no property save the clothes he wore.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | fellow | fellow |  |  | day | with a penny | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | a penny *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | no property | the clothes |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | past | fellow | the clothes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |

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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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