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title: A TRAVELER about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the do… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A TRAVELER about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door stretching himself. Who acts: TRAVELER, Dog. 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 56

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A TRAVELER about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door stretching himself.

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**Who acts:** TRAVELER, Dog · **What happens:** set out, see, stand, stretch · **To what, where:** journey, door, Dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (TRAVELER, Dog), 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:pg21:3:56
# text = A TRAVELER about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door stretching himself.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	TRAVELER	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	_	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **set out** | to-infinitive | a TRAVELER *not said here* |  |  | a journey |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | a TRAVELER |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stand** | infinitive | Hare's Dog |  |  | the door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
| 4 | **stretch** | gerund | Hare's Dog *not said here* | Dog |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=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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