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title: So she opened her beak wide to utter her loudest caw, and down fell… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So she opened her beak wide to utter her loudest caw, and down fell the cheese straight into the Fox's open mouth. Who acts: Crow. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 16

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So she opened her beak wide to utter her loudest caw, and down fell the cheese straight into the Fox's open mouth.

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**Who acts:** Crow · **What happens:** open, utter, fall, caw · **To what, where:** beak, loudest caw, cheese, open mouth

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crow), 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:pg19994:132:16
# text = So she opened her beak wide to utter her loudest caw, and down fell the cheese straight into the Fox's open mouth.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	caw	caw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | Crow | Crow's beak |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beak=Theme |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Crow *not said here* | Crow's loudest caw |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent caw=Topic |
| 3 | **fall** | past | Crow *not said here* | the cheese |  | the Fox's open mouth |  | down *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cheese=Result |
| 4 | **caw** |  | Crow |  |  |  |  |  | nom caw «event intransitive»: 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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