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description: The North Wind first tried his power and blew with all his might, but the keener his blasts, the closer the Traveler wrapped his cloak around him, until at last, resigning all hope of victory, the Wind called upon the Sun to see what he could do. Who acts: North Wind, Traveler, space, victory. A sen
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 102

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The North Wind first tried his power and blew with all his might, but the keener his blasts, the closer the Traveler wrapped his cloak around him, until at last, resigning all hope of victory, the Wind called upon the Sun to see what he could do.

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**Who acts:** North Wind, Traveler, space, victory · **What happens:** try, blow, wrap, resign, call, see · **To what, where:** power, cloak, hope, Wind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (North Wind, Traveler, space, victory), 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:pg21:13:102
# text = The North Wind first tried his power and blew with all his might, but the keener his blasts, the closer the Traveler wrapped his cloak around him, until at last, resigning all hope of victory, the Wind called upon the Sun to see what he could do.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
5	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	keener	keen	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	blasts	blast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Traveler	Traveler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	around	around	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	until	until	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	resigning	resign	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
43	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
49	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	52	obj	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | the North Wind | space's power |  |  |  | first *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |
| 2 | **blow** | past | the North Wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **wrap** | past | the Traveler | space's cloak |  |  |  | around space | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme around he=Destination |
| 4 | **resign** | gerund | the Traveler *not said here* | all hope of victory and the Wind |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent hope=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  | the Wind *not said here* |  |  |  | upon the Sun | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Traveler *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **do** | could | space |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 8 | **blast** |  | space |  |  |  |  |  | nom blast «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **hope** |  | victory |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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