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title: A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it with delight. Who acts: CROW. 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 37

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A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it with delight.

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**Who acts:** CROW · **What happens:** perish, see, hope, find, fly · **To what, where:** pitcher, water

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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: who acts (CROW), 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:pg21:11:37
# text = A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it with delight.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	CROW	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	perishing	perish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **perish** | gerund | a CROW *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with thirst | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | a CROW | a pitcher |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pitcher=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hope** | gerund | a CROW *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a CROW *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |
| 5 | **fly** | past | a CROW *not said here* |  |  | Pitcher |  | with delight | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination |

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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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