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title: A FISHERMAN skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seas… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A FISHERMAN skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Who acts: FISHERMAN. 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 87

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A FISHERMAN skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore.

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**Who acts:** FISHERMAN · **What happens:** skill, take · **To what, where:** FISHERMAN, music, flute, seashore

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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 (FISHERMAN), 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:pg21:3:87
# text = A FISHERMAN skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	FISHERMAN	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	skilled	skill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skill** | participle |  | a FISHERMAN *not said here* |  | music |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | a FISHERMAN | FISHERMAN's flute and FISHERMAN's nets |  | the seashore |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flute=Theme to seashore=Destination |

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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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