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title: Then, toward nightfall, he heard the Mother's voice again as she sat… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, toward nightfall, he heard the Mother's voice again as she sat down near the window to sing and rock her baby to sleep. Who acts: Wolf, voice. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mother and the Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mother and the Wolf, sentence 7

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Then, toward nightfall, he heard the Mother's voice again as she sat down near the window to sing and rock her baby to sleep.

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**Who acts:** Wolf, voice · **What happens:** hear, sit down, sing, sleep · **To what, where:** voice, window, baby

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mother and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, voice), 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:pg19994:121:7
# text = Then, toward nightfall, he heard the Mother's voice again as she sat down near the window to sing and rock her baby to sleep.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Wolf | the Mother's voice |  |  | then; again | toward nightfall | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | voice |  |  | the window |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near window=Location |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | voice *not said here* | voice's baby |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location baby=Theme |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | voice *not said here* | voice's baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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