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title: A Dove saw an Ant fall into a brook. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Dove saw an Ant fall into a brook. Who acts: Dove. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ant and the Dove, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ant and the Dove, sentence 1

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A Dove saw an Ant fall into a brook.

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**Who acts:** Dove · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** Ant fall, brook

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ant and the Dove. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dove), 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:pg19994:135:1
# text = A Dove saw an Ant fall into a brook.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dove	Dove	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Ant	ant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | a Dove | a Ant fall |  | a brook |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fall=Stimulus |

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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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