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title: A FOX was mounting a hedge when he lost his footing and caught hold… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A FOX was mounting a hedge when he lost his footing and caught hold of a Bramble to save himself. Who acts: FOX. 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 95

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A FOX was mounting a hedge when he lost his footing and caught hold of a Bramble to save himself.

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**Who acts:** FOX · **What happens:** mount, lose, catch, save, hold · **To what, where:** hedge, footing, hold, Fox, Bramble

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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 (FOX), 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:pg21:15:95
# text = A FOX was mounting a hedge when he lost his footing and caught hold of a Bramble to save himself.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	FOX	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	mounting	mount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	footing	footing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Bramble	bramble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past · progressive | a FOX | a hedge |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedge=Patient |
| 2 | **lose** | past | Fox | Fox's footing |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **catch** | past | Fox *not said here* | hold of a Bramble |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | Fox *not said here* | Fox |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | a Bramble |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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