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title: He called out to a passing traveler for help, but instead of holding… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He called out to a passing traveler for help, but instead of holding out a helping hand, the man stood by unconcernedly, and scolded the boy for his imprudence. Who acts: reward, man. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 33

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He called out to a passing traveler for help, but instead of holding out a helping hand, the man stood by unconcernedly, and scolded the boy for his imprudence.

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**Who acts:** reward, man · **What happens:** call out, pass, hold out, help, stand, scold · **To what, where:** passing traveler, helping hand, boy

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reward, man), 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:pg21:12:33
# text = He called out to a passing traveler for help, but instead of holding out a helping hand, the man stood by unconcernedly, and scolded the boy for his imprudence.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	14	mark	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	unconcernedly	unconcernedly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	scolded	scold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	imprudence	imprudence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | reward |  | a passing traveler for help |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to traveler=Recipient |
| 2 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hold out** | gerund | reward *not said here* | a helping hand |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stand** | past | the man |  |  |  |  | unconcernedly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **scold** | past | the man *not said here* | the boy |  |  |  | for reward's imprudence | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent boy=Theme for imprudence=Attribute |

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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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