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title: A WALNUT TREE standing by the roadside bore an abundant crop of fruit. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A WALNUT TREE standing by the roadside bore an abundant crop of fruit. Who acts: WALNUT TREE. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 78

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A WALNUT TREE standing by the roadside bore an abundant crop of fruit.

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**Who acts:** WALNUT TREE · **What happens:** stand, bear · **To what, where:** abundant crop

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WALNUT TREE), 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:pg21:11:78
# text = A WALNUT TREE standing by the roadside bore an abundant crop of fruit.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	WALNUT	WALNUT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	TREE	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	abundant	abundant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | a WALNUT TREE *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the roadside | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by roadside=Location |
| 2 | **bear** | past | a WALNUT TREE | a abundant crop of fruit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient |

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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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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