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title: In a twinkling the Oyster was resting in the Dog's stomach, shell an… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: In a twinkling the Oyster was resting in the Dog's stomach, shell and all. Who acts: Oyster. 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 5

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In a twinkling the Oyster was resting in the Dog's stomach, shell and all.

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**Who acts:** Oyster · **What happens:** twinkle, rest · **To what, where:** stomach

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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 (Oyster), 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:pg19994:90:5
# text = In a twinkling the Oyster was resting in the Dog's stomach, shell and all.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	twinkling	twinkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Oyster	Oyster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twinkle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rest** | past · progressive | the Oyster |  |  | the Dog's stomach and shell |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in stomach=Location |

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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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