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title: One warm summer afternoon as she dozed away in her den in the old oa… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: One warm summer afternoon as she dozed away in her den in the old oak tree, a Grasshopper nearby began a joyous but very raspy song. Who acts: Owl, Grasshopper. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 5

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One warm summer afternoon as she dozed away in her den in the old oak tree, a Grasshopper nearby began a joyous but very raspy song.

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**Who acts:** Owl, Grasshopper · **What happens:** doze away, begin · **To what, where:** den, joyous song

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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 (Owl, Grasshopper), 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:pg19994:28:5
# text = One warm summer afternoon as she dozed away in her den in the old oak tree, a Grasshopper nearby began a joyous but very raspy song.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dozed	doze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
23	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	raspy	raspy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
27	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doze away** | past | Owl |  |  | Owl's den | afternoon | in the old oak tree; away *property* | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | a Grasshopper | a joyous song |  |  |  | nearby *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality |

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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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