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title: The Animals heard about the Stag's illness and came to ask after his… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Animals heard about the Stag's illness and came to ask after his health. Who acts: Animals. 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 3

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The Animals heard about the Stag's illness and came to ask after his health.

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**Who acts:** Animals · **What happens:** hear, come, ask

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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 (Animals), 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:pg19994:86:3
# text = The Animals heard about the Stag's illness and came to ask after his health.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Stag	Stag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the Animals |  |  |  |  | about the Stag's illness | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about illness=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the Animals *not said here* |  |  |  | after Stag's health |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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