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title: A wise old Cat heard the dispute and offered to settle it. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A wise old Cat heard the dispute and offered to settle it. Who acts: wise old Cat. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, sentence 7

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A wise old Cat heard the dispute and offered to settle it.

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**Who acts:** wise old Cat · **What happens:** hear, offer, settle · **To what, where:** dispute

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise old Cat), 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:pg19994:66:7
# text = A wise old Cat heard the dispute and offered to settle it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | a wise old Cat | the dispute |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dispute=Stimulus |
| 2 | **offer** | participle | a wise old Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **settle** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a wise old Cat *not said here* | dispute |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=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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