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title: A CHARGER, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mil… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A CHARGER, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of going out to battle. Who acts: CHARGER. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 24

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A CHARGER, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of going out to battle.

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**Who acts:** CHARGER · **What happens:** feel, send, work, go out, battle · **To what, where:** infirmities, CHARGER

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CHARGER), 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:pg21:6:24
# text = A CHARGER, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of going out to battle.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	CHARGER	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	infirmities	infirmity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	battle	battle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | gerund | a CHARGER *not said here* | the infirmities of age |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infirmity=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past · passive |  | a CHARGER |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | a CHARGER *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in a mill | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mill=Theme |
| 4 | **go out** | gerund | a CHARGER *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **battle** | to-infinitive | a CHARGER *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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