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title: A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. Who acts: FARMER, Cranes. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 6

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A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.

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**Who acts:** FARMER, Cranes · **What happens:** place, sow, catch, come, pick up · **To what, where:** nets, sown plowlands, number, seed

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FARMER, Cranes), 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:pg21:4:6
# text = A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	FARMER	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	newly	newly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	sown	sow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	plowlands	plowland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | participle | a FARMER *not said here* | nets |  | Stork's sown plowlands |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme on plowland=Destination |
| 2 | **sow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | past | a FARMER *not said here* | a number of Cranes |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | Cranes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | Cranes *not said here* | Stork's seed |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=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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