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title: A CRAB, forsaking the seashore, chose a neighboring green meadow as… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A CRAB, forsaking the seashore, chose a neighboring green meadow as its feeding ground. Who acts: CRAB. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 95

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A CRAB, forsaking the seashore, chose a neighboring green meadow as its feeding ground.

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**Who acts:** CRAB · **What happens:** forsake, choose, neighbor · **To what, where:** seashore, neighboring green meadow

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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 (CRAB), 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:pg21:10:95
# text = A CRAB, forsaking the seashore, chose a neighboring green meadow as its feeding ground.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	CRAB	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	forsaking	forsake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** | gerund | a CRAB *not said here* | the seashore |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | past | a CRAB | a neighboring green meadow |  |  |  | as meadow's feeding ground | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme |
| 3 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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