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title: But instead of awakening the farmer, he awakened a Fox not far off i… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But instead of awakening the farmer, he awakened a Fox not far off in the wood. Who acts: Cock. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 11

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But instead of awakening the farmer, he awakened a Fox not far off in the wood.

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**Who acts:** Cock · **What happens:** awaken · **To what, where:** farmer, Fox

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cock), 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:pg19994:7:11
# text = But instead of awakening the farmer, he awakened a Fox not far off in the wood.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	awakening	awaken	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	off	off	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awaken** | gerund | Cock *not said here* | the farmer |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location farmer=Theme |
| 2 | **awaken** | past | Cock | a Fox |  |  |  | off *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fox=Theme |

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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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