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title: A PEDDLER drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A PEDDLER drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt. Who acts: PEDDLER. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 54

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A PEDDLER drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt.

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**Who acts:** PEDDLER · **What happens:** drive, buy · **To what, where:** Ass, seashore, salt

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PEDDLER), 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:pg21:5:54
# text = A PEDDLER drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	PEDDLER	peddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **drive** | past | a PEDDLER | PEDDLER's Ass |  | the seashore |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ass=Theme to seashore=Trajectory |
| 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive | a PEDDLER *not said here* | salt |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Theme |

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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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