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title: A HORSE, Ox, and Dog, driven to great straits by the cold, sought sh… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A HORSE, Ox, and Dog, driven to great straits by the cold, sought shelter and protection from Man. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 122

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A HORSE, Ox, and Dog, driven to great straits by the cold, sought shelter and protection from Man.

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**What happens:** drive, seek · **To what, where:** HORSE

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg21:11:122
# text = A HORSE, Ox, and Dog, driven to great straits by the cold, sought shelter and protection from Man.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	HORSE	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	straits	strait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:agent	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | participle |  | a HORSE and Ox and Dog *not said here* |  |  |  | by the sought shelter and protection from Man | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seek** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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