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title: So they decided to leave the farmyard and to set out into the world… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So they decided to leave the farmyard and to set out into the world along the road that led to the woods. Who acts: Dog, road. 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 2

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So they decided to leave the farmyard and to set out into the world along the road that led to the woods.

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**Who acts:** Dog, road · **What happens:** decide, leave, set out, lead · **To what, where:** farmyard, world

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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 (Dog, road), 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:pg19994:7:2
# text = So they decided to leave the farmyard and to set out into the world along the road that led to the woods.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | Dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Dog *not said here* | the farmyard |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmyard=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | to-infinitive | Dog *not said here* |  |  | the world |  | along the road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into world=Initial\_Location along road=Destination |
| 4 | **lead** | past | the road |  |  |  |  | to the woods | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to wood=Patient |

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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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