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title: Then after sundown, when the rosy light fades from the sky and the s… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Then after sundown, when the rosy light fades from the sky and the shadows rise slowly through the wood, out she comes ruffling and blinking from the old hollow tree. Who acts: sundown, shadows, light. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper, with its dependency 
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# The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 2

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Then after sundown, when the rosy light fades from the sky and the shadows rise slowly through the wood, out she comes ruffling and blinking from the old hollow tree.

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**Who acts:** sundown, shadows, light · **What happens:** fade, rise, come, ruffle, blink · **To what, where:** sky, wood, old hollow tree

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sundown, shadows, light), 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:pg19994:28:2
# text = Then after sundown, when the rosy light fades from the sky and the shadows rise slowly through the wood, out she comes ruffling and blinking from the old hollow tree.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	sundown	sundown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fades	fade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	ruffling	ruffle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	blinking	blink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fade** | present | sundown |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rise** | present | the shadows |  |  | the wood |  | slowly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Location |
| 3 | **come** | present | light |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ruffle** | gerund | light *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **blink** | gerund | light *not said here* |  |  | the old hollow tree |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: 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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