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title: A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the Fox, inquired if the water was good. Who acts: Goat, water. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 31

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A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the Fox, inquired if the water was good.

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**Who acts:** Goat, water · **What happens:** overcome, come, see, inquire, be · **To what, where:** same, Fox

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goat, water), 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:pg21:4:31
# text = A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the Fox, inquired if the water was good.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
19	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overcome** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with thirst | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **come** | past | a Goat |  |  | the same |  | well *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to same=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | gerund |  | the Fox |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus |
| 4 | **inquire** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the water |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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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