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title: A FOX swimming across a rapid river was carried by the force of the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A FOX swimming across a rapid river was carried by the force of the current into a very deep ravine, where he lay for a long time very much bruised, sick, and unable to move. Who acts: FOX, force. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 107

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A FOX swimming across a rapid river was carried by the force of the current into a very deep ravine, where he lay for a long time very much bruised, sick, and unable to move.

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**Who acts:** FOX, force · **What happens:** swim, carry, lie, bruise, move · **To what, where:** rapid river, FOX, deep ravine

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FOX, force), 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:pg21:10:107
# text = A FOX swimming across a rapid river was carried by the force of the current into a very deep ravine, where he lay for a long time very much bruised, sick, and unable to move.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	FOX	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	bruised	bruise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | gerund | a FOX *not said here* |  |  | a rapid river |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across river=Trajectory |
| 2 | **carry** | past · passive | the force of the current | a FOX |  | a deep ravine |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | past | Fox |  |  |  | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bruise** | participle | Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **move** | to-infinitive | Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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