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description: With that he let go, and the foolish Ass tumbled head over heels down the mountain side. Who acts: way, foolish Ass. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and His Driver, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass and His Driver, sentence 5

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With that he let go, and the foolish Ass tumbled head over heels down the mountain side.

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**Who acts:** way, foolish Ass · **What happens:** let, go, tumble · **To what, where:** head, heels

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and His Driver. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, foolish Ass), 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:pg19994:17:5
# text = With that he let go, and the foolish Ass tumbled head over heels down the mountain side.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Ass	Ass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | way |  |  |  |  | with that | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tumble** | past | the foolish Ass | head |  | heels |  | down the mountain side | 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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