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title: He visited the hen house very often and at last got so greedy that h… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: He visited the hen house very often and at last got so greedy that he would swallow the eggs whole. Who acts: Dog. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and the Oyster, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dog and the Oyster, sentence 2

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He visited the hen house very often and at last got so greedy that he would swallow the eggs whole.

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**Who acts:** Dog · **What happens:** visit, get, swallow · **To what, where:** hen house, last, eggs

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and the Oyster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog), 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:pg19994:90:2
# text = He visited the hen house very often and at last got so greedy that he would swallow the eggs whole.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | Dog | the hen house |  |  |  | often *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past | Dog *not said here* |  |  | last |  | greedy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **swallow** | would | Dog | the eggs |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient |

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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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