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title: As they rested under its shade, one of the Travelers said to the oth… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: As they rested under its shade, one of the Travelers said to the other, “What a singularly useless tree is the Plane! Who acts: beauty, Travelers, useless tree, Traveler. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 79

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As they rested under its shade, one of the Travelers said to the other, “What a singularly useless tree is the Plane!

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**Who acts:** beauty, Travelers, useless tree, Traveler · **What happens:** rest, say, be, shade · **To what, where:** shade, one, other, Plane · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (beauty, Travelers, useless tree, Traveler), 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:pg21:15:79
# text = As they rested under its shade, one of the Travelers said to the other, “What a singularly useless tree is the Plane!
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Travelers	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	singularly	singularly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Plane	plane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | beauty |  |  | Traveler's shade |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shade=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Travelers | one | the other |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a useless tree | the Plane |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shade** |  | Traveler |  |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=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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