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title: Each was so well pleased with his bargain that they made for some ti… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Each was so well pleased with his bargain that they made for some time the same exchange day after day. Who acts: Each, Huntsman, Fisherman. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 17

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Each was so well pleased with his bargain that they made for some time the same exchange day after day.

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**Who acts:** Each, Huntsman, Fisherman · **What happens:** be, make, bargain · **To what, where:** bargain

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, Huntsman, Fisherman), 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:pg21:7:17
# text = Each was so well pleased with his bargain that they made for some time the same exchange day after day.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Each |  |  |  |  | with Fisherman's bargain; pleased, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | Huntsman | Fisherman's bargain *not said here* |  |  | day; time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product |
| 3 | **bargain** |  | Fisherman |  |  |  |  |  | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: 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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