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title: A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his p… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. Who acts: FOX. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 104

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A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.

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**Who acts:** FOX · **What happens:** enter, rummage, come, imitate · **To what, where:** house, properties, Mask, human head

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FOX), 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:pg21:12:104
# text = A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	FOX	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	actor	actor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	rummaging	rummage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	properties	property	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Mask	mask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	admirable	admirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	imitation	imitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | a FOX | the house of a actor |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination |
| 2 | **rummage** | gerund | a FOX *not said here* |  |  | Bull's properties |  |  | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through property=Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | a FOX *not said here* |  |  | a Mask |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon mask=Location |
| 4 | **imitate** |  |  | a human head |  |  |  |  | nom imitation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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