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title: The hungry but unsuspecting Fox, went around the tree as he was told… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The hungry but unsuspecting Fox, went around the tree as he was told, and in a twinkling the Dog had seized him. Who acts: hungry Fox. 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 19

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The hungry but unsuspecting Fox, went around the tree as he was told, and in a twinkling the Dog had seized him.

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**Who acts:** hungry Fox · **What happens:** unsuspect, go, tell, twinkle, seize · **To what, where:** tree, Fox · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hungry Fox), 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:pg19994:7:19
# text = The hungry but unsuspecting Fox, went around the tree as he was told, and in a twinkling the Dog had seized him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	unsuspecting	unsuspect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
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	aux:pass	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	twinkling	twinkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unsuspect** | gerund | the hungry Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | the hungry Fox |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around tree=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | Fox |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **twinkle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **seize** | past · perfect |  | Fox |  |  |  | in a twinkling Dog | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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