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title: Rolling himself in flour until he was covered completely, he lay dow… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Rolling himself in flour until he was covered completely, he lay down in the flour bin, with one eye open for the Mice. Who acts: Cat. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Old Rat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 11

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Rolling himself in flour until he was covered completely, he lay down in the flour bin, with one eye open for the Mice.

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**Who acts:** Cat · **What happens:** roll, cover, lie down · **To what, where:** Cat, flour, flour bin

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Old Rat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), 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:pg19994:131:11
# text = Rolling himself in flour until he was covered completely, he lay down in the flour bin, with one eye open for the Mice.
1	Rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj:pass	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | gerund |  | Cat |  | flour |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in flour=Trajectory |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | Cat |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **lie down** | past | Cat |  |  | the flour bin |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bin=Location |

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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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