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title: She let him lie uninterred for five days, and on the sixth day, not… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: She let him lie uninterred for five days, and on the sixth day, not knowing what else to do, she buried him in her own head. Who acts: Lark, Father. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 104

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She let him lie uninterred for five days, and on the sixth day, not knowing what else to do, she buried him in her own head.

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**Who acts:** Lark, Father · **What happens:** let, lie, uninterr, not know, do, bury · **To what, where:** Father, own head

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lark, Father), 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:pg21:14:104
# text = She let him lie uninterred for five days, and on the sixth day, not knowing what else to do, she buried him in her own head.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	uninterred	uninterr	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
19	else	else	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | Lark | Father |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | infinitive | Father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **uninterr** | participle | Father *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **know** | gerund | Lark *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | Lark *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 6 | **bury** | past | Lark | Father |  | Lark's own head |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in head=Destination |

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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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