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title: A CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels s… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into a rut. Who acts: CARTER, wheels. 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 96

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A CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into a rut.

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**Who acts:** CARTER, wheels · **What happens:** drive, sink down · **To what, where:** wagon, country lane, rut

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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 (CARTER, wheels), 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:pg21:3:96
# text = A CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into a rut.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	CARTER	CARTER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rut	rut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past · progressive | a CARTER | a wagon |  | a country lane |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wagon=Theme along lane=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sink down** | past | the wheels |  |  | a rut |  | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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