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title: He soon roused the whole hen yard, and when the Farmer came running… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He soon roused the whole hen yard, and when the Farmer came running out, that was the end of Mr. Fox. Who acts: Cock, Farmer, that. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 10

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He soon roused the whole hen yard, and when the Farmer came running out, that was the end of Mr. Fox.

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**Who acts:** Cock, Farmer, that · **What happens:** rouse, come, run out, be · **To what, where:** whole hen yard, end

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cock, Farmer, that), 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:pg19994:146:10
# text = He soon roused the whole hen yard, and when the Farmer came running out, that was the end of Mr. Fox.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	roused	rouse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
14	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rouse** | past | Cock | the whole hen yard |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yard=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Farmer |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run out** | gerund | the Farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | that | the end |  |  |  | of Mr. Fox | tree rules |

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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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