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title: Having instilled these fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Having instilled these fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to hide herself in the hollow of the tree. Who acts: Sow. 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 8

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Having instilled these fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to hide herself in the hollow of the tree.

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**Who acts:** Sow · **What happens:** have, instil, go, pretend, hide · **To what, where:** instilled fears, Sow, hollow

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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 (Sow), 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:pg21:11:8
# text = Having instilled these fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to hide herself in the hollow of the tree.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	instilled	instil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sow	sow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hollow	hollow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Sow *not said here* | this instilled fears |  | the Sow |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 2 | **instil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | Sow |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pretend** | past | Sow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hide** | to-infinitive | Sow *not said here* | Sow |  | the hollow of the tree |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in hollow=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:** «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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