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title: One moonlight evening as Master Fox was taking his usual stroll in t… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: One moonlight evening as Master Fox was taking his usual stroll in the woods, he saw a number of Pheasants perched quite out of his reach on a limb of a tall old tree. Who acts: Master, number. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Pheasants, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Pheasants, sentence 1

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One moonlight evening as Master Fox was taking his usual stroll in the woods, he saw a number of Pheasants perched quite out of his reach on a limb of a tall old tree.

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**Who acts:** Master, number · **What happens:** take, see, perch, stroll · **To what, where:** usual stroll, woods, reach · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Pheasants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, number), 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:pg19994:117:1
# text = One moonlight evening as Master Fox was taking his usual stroll in the woods, he saw a number of Pheasants perched quite out of his reach on a limb of a tall old tree.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stroll	stroll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Pheasants	pheasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	perched	perch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
23	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **take** | past · progressive | Master | Master's usual stroll |  | the woods |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stroll=Value in wood=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | Master |  |  |  | evening |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **perch** | past | a number of Pheasants |  |  | number's reach on a limb of a tall old tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out reach=Location |
| 4 | **stroll** |  | Master |  |  |  |  |  | nom stroll «act 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:** «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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