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title: And when the Fox began his performance all over again, so dazed did… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the Fox began his performance all over again, so dazed did they become, that they lost their hold on the limb, and fell down one by one to the Fox. Who acts: Fox, heads. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Pheasants, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Pheasants, sentence 8

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And when the Fox began his performance all over again, so dazed did they become, that they lost their hold on the limb, and fell down one by one to the Fox.

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**Who acts:** Fox, heads · **What happens:** begin, daze, become, lose, fall down, perform · **To what, where:** performance, hold, limb, one

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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 (Fox, heads), 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:pg19994:117:8
# text = And when the Fox began his performance all over again, so dazed did they become, that they lost their hold on the limb, and fell down one by one to the Fox.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	dazed	daze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the Fox | Fox's performance |  |  | again |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent performance=Eventuality |
| 2 | **daze** | participle | heads *= head* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **become** | past · do-support | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | past | heads *= head* | heads's hold |  | the limb |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Eventuality |
| 5 | **fall down** | past |  | one |  |  |  | by one to the Fox | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result |
| 6 | **perform** |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **hold** |  | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: 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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