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title: THE ASS and the Fox, having entered into partnership together for th… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: THE ASS and the Fox, having entered into partnership together for their mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt. Who acts: ASS. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 117

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THE ASS and the Fox, having entered into partnership together for their mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt.

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**Who acts:** ASS · **What happens:** enter, go out, hunt, protect · **To what, where:** ASS, partnership, forest

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ASS), 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:pg21:3:117
# text = THE ASS and the Fox, having entered into partnership together for their mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ASS	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	partnership	partnership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mutual	mutual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | gerund · perfect |  | the ASS and the Fox *not said here* |  | partnership |  | for Ass's mutual protection; together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into partnership=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go out** | past | the ASS and the Fox |  |  | the forest |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | the ASS and the Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **protect** |  | Ass |  |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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