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title: But when war broke out, a heavily armed soldier mounted the Horse, a… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 100

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But when war broke out, a heavily armed soldier mounted the Horse, and riding him to the charge, rushed into the very midst of the enemy.

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**Who acts:** war, armed soldier · **What happens:** break out, mount, ride, rush · **To what, where:** Horse, charge, midst

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, armed soldier), 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:pg21:15:100
# text = But when war broke out, a heavily armed soldier mounted the Horse, and riding him to the charge, rushed into the very midst of the enemy.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break out** | past | war |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **mount** | past | a armed soldier | the Horse |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 3 | **ride** | gerund | a armed soldier *not said here* | Horse |  | the charge |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to charge=Trajectory |
| 4 | **rush** | participle |  | the charge *not said here* |  |  |  | into the midst of the enemy *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into midst=Result |

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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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