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title: At night they returned home, not dreaming of any danger, but supposi… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: At night they returned home, not dreaming of any danger, but supposing that on the morrow they would find him dead. Who acts: others. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 20

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At night they returned home, not dreaming of any danger, but supposing that on the morrow they would find him dead.

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**Who acts:** others · **What happens:** return, not dream, suppose, find · **To what, where:** that, morrow, Shepherd

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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:pg21:16:20
# text = At night they returned home, not dreaming of any danger, but supposing that on the morrow they would find him dead.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	supposing	suppose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | others *= other* |  |  |  | night | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **dream** | gerund | others *= other* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of any danger | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **suppose** | gerund | others *= other* *not said here* | that |  | the morrow |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute |
| 4 | **find** | would | others *= other* | Shepherd |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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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