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description: When night came she went forth with silent foot and obtained food for herself and her kittens, but feigning to be afraid, she kept a lookout all through the day. Who acts: night, Sow. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 9

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When night came she went forth with silent foot and obtained food for herself and her kittens, but feigning to be afraid, she kept a lookout all through the day.

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**Who acts:** night, Sow · **What happens:** come, go, obtain, feign, be, keep · **To what, where:** food, lookout

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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 (night, 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:pg21:11:9
# text = When night came she went forth with silent foot and obtained food for herself and her kittens, but feigning to be afraid, she kept a lookout all through the day.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	kittens	kitten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	feigning	feign	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lookout	lookout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	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 | **come** | past | night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Sow |  |  |  |  | with silent foot; forth *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with foot=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **obtain** | past | Sow *not said here* | food |  |  |  | for Sow | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent food=Theme for herself=Asset |
| 4 | **feign** | gerund | night *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | night *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **keep** | past | Sow | a lookout |  |  | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lookout=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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