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title: The poor Bear had to take to his heels, and he was able to save hims… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor Bear had to take to his heels, and he was able to save himself only by diving into a pool of water. Who acts: poor Bear, Bear. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bear and the Bees, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Bear and the Bees, sentence 7

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The poor Bear had to take to his heels, and he was able to save himself only by diving into a pool of water.

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**Who acts:** poor Bear, Bear · **What happens:** have, take, be, save, dive · **To what, where:** Bear, pool

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bear and the Bees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Bear, Bear), 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:pg19994:67:7
# text = The poor Bear had to take to his heels, and he was able to save himself only by diving into a pool of water.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	diving	dive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the poor Bear |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | the poor Bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Bear's heels *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result |
| 3 | **is** | past | Bear |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | Bear *not said here* | Bear |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 5 | **dive** | gerund | Bear *not said here* |  |  | a pool of water |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pool=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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