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title: And so far was he from carrying away the Ram, that the Ram hardly no… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: And so far was he from carrying away the Ram, that the Ram hardly noticed he was there. Who acts: head, Ram. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, sentence 5

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And so far was he from carrying away the Ram, that the Ram hardly noticed he was there.

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**Who acts:** head, Ram · **What happens:** carry away, notice, be · **To what, where:** Ram · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Jackdaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, Ram), 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:pg19994:9:5
# text = And so far was he from carrying away the Ram, that the Ram hardly noticed he was there.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Ram	Ram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Ram	Ram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry away** | past · progressive | head | the Ram |  |  |  | away, far *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | past | the Ram |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | head |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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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