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title: When the Cobbler happened to fall sick himself of a serious illness,… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Cobbler happened to fall sick himself of a serious illness, the Governor of the town determined to test his skill. Who acts: Cobbler, Governor. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 60

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When the Cobbler happened to fall sick himself of a serious illness, the Governor of the town determined to test his skill.

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**Who acts:** Cobbler, Governor · **What happens:** happen, fall, determine, test · **To what, where:** COBBLER, serious illness, skill

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cobbler, Governor), 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:pg21:13:60
# text = When the Cobbler happened to fall sick himself of a serious illness, the Governor of the town determined to test his skill.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Cobbler	Cobbler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | the Cobbler |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | to-infinitive | the Cobbler *not said here* | COBBLER |  |  |  | of a serious illness; sick *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of illness=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **determine** | past | the Governor of the town | a serious illness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **test** | to-infinitive | the Governor of the town *not said here* | COBBLER's skill |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=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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