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title: The Swallow and the Crow had an argument one day about their plumage. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Swallow and the Crow had an argument one day about their plumage. Who acts: Swallow. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Swallow and the Crow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Swallow and the Crow, sentence 1

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The Swallow and the Crow had an argument one day about their plumage.

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**Who acts:** Swallow · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** argument

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Swallow 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 (Swallow), 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:pg19994:138:1
# text = The Swallow and the Crow had an argument one day about their plumage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Swallow and the Crow | a argument |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Patient |

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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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