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title: One bright evening as the sun was sinking on a glorious world a wise… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: One bright evening as the sun was sinking on a glorious world a wise old Cock flew into a tree to roost. Who acts: sun, wise old Cock. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 1

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One bright evening as the sun was sinking on a glorious world a wise old Cock flew into a tree to roost.

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**Who acts:** sun, wise old Cock · **What happens:** sink, fly, roost · **To what, where:** One bright evening, glorious world, tree

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, 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 (sun, wise old 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:pg19994:70:1
# text = One bright evening as the sun was sinking on a glorious world a wise old Cock flew into a tree to roost.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	roost	roost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past · progressive | the sun | One bright evening *not said here* |  | a glorious world |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent evening=Patient |
| 2 | **fly** | past | a wise old Cock |  |  |  | evening | into a tree *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result |
| 3 | **roost** | to-infinitive | a wise old Cock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=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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