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title: A Fowler observed her staying so long in one spot, and having well b… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A Fowler observed her staying so long in one spot, and having well bird-limed his reeds, caught her. Who acts: Fowler. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 57

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A Fowler observed her staying so long in one spot, and having well bird-limed his reeds, caught her.

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**Who acts:** Fowler · **What happens:** observe, stay, have, lime, catch · **To what, where:** lamb, one spot, reeds

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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 (Fowler), 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:pg21:15:57
# text = A Fowler observed her staying so long in one spot, and having well bird-limed his reeds, caught her.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fowler	fowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	limed	lime	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | past | a Fowler | lamb |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 2 | **stay** | gerund | a Fowler *not said here* |  |  | one spot |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spot=Location |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | a Fowler *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lime** | participle | a Fowler *not said here* | Tree's reeds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **catch** | past | a Fowler *not said here* | lamb |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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