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title: Once there were two Cocks living in the same farmyard who could not… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Once there were two Cocks living in the same farmyard who could not bear the sight of each other. Who acts: two Cocks, same farmyard. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, sentence 1

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Once there were two Cocks living in the same farmyard who could not bear the sight of each other.

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**Who acts:** two Cocks, same farmyard · **What happens:** be, live, not bear · **To what, where:** same farmyard, sight

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two Cocks, same farmyard), 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:pg19994:149:1
# text = Once there were two Cocks living in the same farmyard who could not bear the sight of each other.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	Cocks	cock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | two Cocks |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | two Cocks *not said here* |  |  | the same farmyard |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in farmyard=Location |
| 3 | **not** **bear** | could | the same farmyard | the sight of each |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=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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