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title: The Dog could creep inside and the Cock would fly up on one of the b… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dog could creep inside and the Cock would fly up on one of the branches. Who acts: Dog, 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 5

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The Dog could creep inside and the Cock would fly up on one of the branches.

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**Who acts:** Dog, Cock · **What happens:** creep, fly up

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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, 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:pg19994:7:5
# text = The Dog could creep inside and the Cock would fly up on one of the branches.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | could | the Dog |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly up** | would | the Cock |  |  |  |  | on one of the branches | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on one=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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