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title: A PEASANT had in his garden an Apple-Tree which bore no fruit but on… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A PEASANT had in his garden an Apple-Tree which bore no fruit but only served as a harbor for the sparrows and grasshoppers. Who acts: PEASANT, Apple Tree. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 2

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A PEASANT had in his garden an Apple-Tree which bore no fruit but only served as a harbor for the sparrows and grasshoppers.

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**Who acts:** PEASANT, Apple Tree · **What happens:** have, bear, serve · **To what, where:** garden, fruit

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PEASANT, Apple 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:pg21:15:2
# text = A PEASANT had in his garden an Apple-Tree which bore no fruit but only served as a harbor for the sparrows and grasshoppers.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	PEASANT	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Apple	Apple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	harbor	harbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	grasshoppers	grasshopper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | a PEASANT |  |  | his garden |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bear** | past | a Apple Tree | no fruit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 3 | **serve** | participle | a Apple Tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a harbor for the sparrows and grasshoppers | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as harbor=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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