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title: The sly Fox soon found a bright patch of moonlight, where the Pheasa… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The sly Fox soon found a bright patch of moonlight, where the Pheasants could see him clearly; there he raised himself up on his hind legs, and began a wild dance. Who acts: sly Fox, Pheasants, Fox. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Pheasants, with its dependency tree 
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Pheasants, sentence 2

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The sly Fox soon found a bright patch of moonlight, where the Pheasants could see him clearly; there he raised himself up on his hind legs, and began a wild dance.

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**Who acts:** sly Fox, Pheasants, Fox · **What happens:** find, see, raise up, begin · **To what, where:** bright patch, Fox, hind legs, wild dance

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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 (sly Fox, Pheasants, 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:pg19994:117:2
# text = The sly Fox soon found a bright patch of moonlight, where the Pheasants could see him clearly; there he raised himself up on his hind legs, and began a wild dance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sly	sly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Pheasants	Pheasant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **find** | past | the sly Fox | a bright patch of moonlight |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | could | the Pheasants | Fox |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **raise up** | past | Fox | Fox |  | Fox's hind legs; there |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on leg=Destination |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the sly Fox *not said here* | a wild dance |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality |

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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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