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title: He had just strength enough to gather some food and find a quiet cle… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He had just strength enough to gather some food and find a quiet clearing in the woods, where he lay down to wait until his strength should return. Who acts: Stag, strength. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Sick Stag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Sick Stag, sentence 2

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He had just strength enough to gather some food and find a quiet clearing in the woods, where he lay down to wait until his strength should return.

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**Who acts:** Stag, strength · **What happens:** have, gather, find, lie down, wait, return · **To what, where:** strength, food, quiet clearing, woods

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Sick Stag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stag, strength), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg19994:665`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:86:2
# text = He had just strength enough to gather some food and find a quiet clearing in the woods, where he lay down to wait until his strength should return.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	clearing	clearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Stag | strength |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient |
| 2 | **gather** | to-infinitive | Stag *not said here* | some food |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | infinitive | Stag *not said here* | a quiet clearing |  | the woods |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clearing=Topic |
| 4 | **lie down** | past | Stag |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wait** | to-infinitive | Stag *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **return** | should | Stag's strength |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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