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title: A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. Who acts: Fox, ripe grapes. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Grapes, sentence 1

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A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree.

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**Who acts:** Fox, ripe grapes · **What happens:** spy, hang, train · **To what, where:** beautiful bunch, vine

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, ripe grapes), 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:pg19994:14:1
# text = A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	spied	spy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	along	along	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spy** | past | a Fox  one day | a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bunch=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | ripe grapes *not said here* |  |  | a vine |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **train** | participle |  | a vine *not said here* |  |  |  | along the branches of a tree | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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