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title: But the Fox had so many plans for escape he could not decide which o… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Fox had so many plans for escape he could not decide which one to try first. Who acts: Fox. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 12

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But the Fox had so many plans for escape he could not decide which one to try first.

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**Who acts:** Fox · **What happens:** have, not decide, try · **To what, where:** many plans, one

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox), 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:pg19994:114:12
# text = But the Fox had so many plans for escape he could not decide which one to try first.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Fox | many plans |  |  |  | for escape | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **decide** | could | Fox | which one |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **try** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *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:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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