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title: It was the time of the wheat harvest; but the Farmer reaped nothing… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the time of the wheat harvest; but the Farmer reaped nothing that year and returned home grieving sorely. Who acts: fatality, Farmer. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 104

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It was the time of the wheat harvest; but the Farmer reaped nothing that year and returned home grieving sorely.

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**Who acts:** fatality, Farmer · **What happens:** be, reap, return, grieve · **To what, where:** time, nothing

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fatality, Farmer), 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:pg21:9:104
# text = It was the time of the wheat harvest; but the Farmer reaped nothing that year and returned home grieving sorely.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reaped	reap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	det	_	_
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	grieving	grieve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | fatality | the time |  |  |  | of the wheat harvest | tree rules |
| 2 | **reap** | past | the Farmer | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | past | the Farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grieve** | gerund | the Farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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