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title: "On top of his head and in front of his neck hung pieces of raw red… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "On top of his head and in front of his neck hung pieces of raw red meat. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 6

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"On top of his head and in front of his neck hung pieces of raw red meat.

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**What happens:** hang · **To what, where:** pieces, top

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg19994:76:6
# text = "On top of his head and in front of his neck hung pieces of raw red meat.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** *in a quote* | past |  | pieces of raw red meat |  | top of kind's head and front of kind's neck |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme on top=Destination |

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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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