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title: The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold. Who acts: it, Dog. 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 70

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The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold.

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**Who acts:** it, Dog · **What happens:** snow, not take, oblige, keep · **To what, where:** herd, usual feeding places, Goatherd, fold

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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 (it, Dog), 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:pg21:5:70
# text = The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	snowed	snow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	14	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snow** | past | it |  |  |  | day | hard *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 2 | **not** **take** | could | Dog | the herd |  | Goatherd's usual feeding places |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herd=Theme to place=Destination |
| 3 | **oblige** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | Goatherd |  | the fold |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in fold=Location |

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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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