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title: One day as an Ass was walking in the pasture, he found some Grasshop… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: One day as an Ass was walking in the pasture, he found some Grasshoppers chirping merrily in a grassy corner of the field. Who acts: Ass, Grasshoppers. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, sentence 1

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One day as an Ass was walking in the pasture, he found some Grasshoppers chirping merrily in a grassy corner of the field.

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**Who acts:** Ass, Grasshoppers · **What happens:** walk, find, chirp · **To what, where:** One day, pasture, Grasshoppers, grassy corner

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Grasshoppers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, Grasshoppers), 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:pg19994:73:1
# text = One day as an Ass was walking in the pasture, he found some Grasshoppers chirping merrily in a grassy corner of the field.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	Grasshoppers	grasshopper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	chirping	chirp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | a Ass | One day *not said here* |  | the pasture |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent day=Theme in pasture=Trajectory |
| 2 | **find** | past | Ass | some Grasshoppers |  |  | day |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grasshopper=Topic |
| 3 | **chirp** | gerund | some Grasshoppers *not said here* |  |  | a grassy corner of the field |  | merrily *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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