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title: IN THE WINTERTIME, a Dog curled up in as small a space as possible o… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: IN THE WINTERTIME, a Dog curled up in as small a space as possible on account of the cold, determined to make himself a house. Who acts: Dog. 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 97

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IN THE WINTERTIME, a Dog curled up in as small a space as possible on account of the cold, determined to make himself a house.

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**Who acts:** Dog · **What happens:** curl up, make · **To what, where:** WINTERTIME, space

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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 (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:pg21:13:97
# text = IN THE WINTERTIME, a Dog curled up in as small a space as possible on account of the cold, determined to make himself a house.
1	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	WINTERTIME	wintertime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curl up** | participle | a Dog |  |  | the WINTERTIME |  | in small; on account | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | a Dog *not said here* | space |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary house=Product |

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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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