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description: The Peddler retraced his steps and refilled his panniers with a larger quantity of salt than before. 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 56

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The Peddler retraced his steps and refilled his panniers with a larger quantity of salt than before.

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**Who acts:** Peddler · **What happens:** retrace, refill, step · **To what, where:** steps, panniers

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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:pg21:5:56
# text = The Peddler retraced his steps and refilled his panniers with a larger quantity of salt than before.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Peddler	Peddler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	retraced	retrace	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	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	refilled	refill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	panniers	pannier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	before	before	ADV	RB	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retrace** | past | the Peddler | PEDDLER's steps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **refill** | past | the Peddler *not said here* | PEDDLER's panniers |  |  |  | with a larger quantity of salt | tree rules |
| 3 | **step** |  | PEDDLER |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act 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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