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title: The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from th… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well. Who acts: Fox. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Goat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Goat, sentence 7

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The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well.

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**Who acts:** Fox · **What happens:** jump, leap · **To what, where:** back, tip

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg19994:75:7
# text = The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | the Fox |  |  | the Goat's back |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
| 2 | **leap** | participle | the Fox *not said here* |  |  | the tip of the Goat's horns out the well |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tip=Trajectory |

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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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