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title: But the Fisherman quickly put the fish into his basket. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Fisherman quickly put the fish into his basket. Who acts: Fisherman. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fisherman and the Little Fish, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fisherman and the Little Fish, sentence 6

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But the Fisherman quickly put the fish into his basket.

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**Who acts:** Fisherman · **What happens:** put · **To what, where:** fish, basket

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fisherman and the Little Fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fisherman), 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:pg19994:148:6
# text = But the Fisherman quickly put the fish into his basket.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | infinitive | the Fisherman |  | the fish | Fisherman's basket |  | quickly *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fish=Goal |

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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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