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title: No, indeed; they settled right down, feet and all, to gorge themselv… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: No, indeed; they settled right down, feet and all, to gorge themselves. Who acts: Flies. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Flies and the Honey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Flies and the Honey, sentence 4

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No, indeed; they settled right down, feet and all, to gorge themselves.

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**Who acts:** Flies · **What happens:** settle down, gorge · **To what, where:** feet, Flies

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Flies and the Honey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg19994:957`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:122:4
# text = No, indeed; they settled right down, feet and all, to gorge themselves.
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	right	right	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	gorge	gorge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle down** | past | Flies *= fly* | feet |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **gorge** | to-infinitive | Flies *= fly* *not said here* | Flies *= fly* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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