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title: A DOG and a Cock being great friends, agreed to travel together. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A DOG and a Cock being great friends, agreed to travel together. Who acts: DOG. 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 71

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A DOG and a Cock being great friends, agreed to travel together.

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**Who acts:** DOG · **What happens:** be, agree, travel · **To what, where:** great friends

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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 (DOG), 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:pg21:12:71
# text = A DOG and a Cock being great friends, agreed to travel together.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	DOG	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund | a DOG and a Cock | great friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle |  | great friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **travel** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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