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title: A Crab one day grew disgusted with the sands in which he lived. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Crab one day grew disgusted with the sands in which he lived. Who acts: he. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crab, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crab, sentence 1

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A Crab one day grew disgusted with the sands in which he lived.

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**Who acts:** he · **What happens:** disgust, live · **To what, where:** sands

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crab. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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:pg19994:95:1
# text = A Crab one day grew disgusted with the sands in which he lived.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	disgusted	disgust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disgust** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | day | with the sands | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 2 | **live** | past | he |  |  | the sands |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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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