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title: The Cock flying up, perched himself on the branches of a tree, while… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cock flying up, perched himself on the branches of a tree, while the Dog found a bed beneath in the hollow trunk. Who acts: Cock, 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 73

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The Cock flying up, perched himself on the branches of a tree, while the Dog found a bed beneath in the hollow trunk.

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**Who acts:** Cock, Dog · **What happens:** fly up, perch, find · **To what, where:** Cock, branches, bed, hollow trunk

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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 (Cock, 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:pg21:12:73
# text = The Cock flying up, perched himself on the branches of a tree, while the Dog found a bed beneath in the hollow trunk.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	perched	perch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly up** | gerund | the Cock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **perch** | past | the Cock | Cock |  | the branches of a tree |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on branch=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | past | the Dog | a bed |  | the hollow trunk |  | beneath *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Topic |

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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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