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title: An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. Who acts: Ox. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs and the Ox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Frogs and the Ox, sentence 1

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An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink.

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**Who acts:** Ox · **What happens:** come down, drink · **To what, where:** reedy pool

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs and the Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ox), 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:pg19994:6:1
# text = An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	reedy	reedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | a Ox |  |  | a reedy pool |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pool=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **drink** | to-infinitive | a Ox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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