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title: As the sun rose, the fish left the shallow water near the shore and… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: As the sun rose, the fish left the shallow water near the shore and swam below into the cool depths toward the middle. Who acts: sun, fish. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Heron, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Heron, sentence 8

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As the sun rose, the fish left the shallow water near the shore and swam below into the cool depths toward the middle.

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**Who acts:** sun, fish · **What happens:** rise, leave, swim · **To what, where:** shallow water, shore, cool depths

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Heron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, fish), 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:pg19994:69:8
# text = As the sun rose, the fish left the shallow water near the shore and swam below into the cool depths toward the middle.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	below	below	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the fish | the shallow water |  | the shore |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme near shore=Location |
| 3 | **swim** | past | the fish *not said here* |  |  | the cool depths toward the middle |  | below *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into depth=Destination |

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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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