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title: So he left his home in the woods and fields and flew down to live on… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So he left his home in the woods and fields and flew down to live on the lakes and in the marshes. Who acts: bird. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, A Raven and a Swan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, A Raven and a Swan, sentence 3

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So he left his home in the woods and fields and flew down to live on the lakes and in the marshes.

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**Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** leave, fly down, live · **To what, where:** home, woods, lakes

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, A Raven and a Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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:pg19994:36:3
# text = So he left his home in the woods and fields and flew down to live on the lakes and in the marshes.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | bird | bird's home |  | the woods and fields |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent home=Theme in wood=Location |
| 2 | **fly down** | past | bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | bird *not said here* |  |  | the lakes and the marshes |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lake=Location |

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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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