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title: ONE WINTER a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: ONE WINTER a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. Who acts: Farmer. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 135

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ONE WINTER a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold.

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**Who acts:** Farmer · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** Snake

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Farmer), 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:pg21:3:135
# text = ONE WINTER a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold.
1	ONE	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	WINTER	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | a Farmer | a Snake |  |  | winter | stiff *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic |

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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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