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title: The Goat, mindful only of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, but… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Goat, mindful only of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, but just as he drank, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in and suggested a scheme for their common escape. Who acts: Goat, Fox, words. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, w
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 33

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The Goat, mindful only of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, but just as he drank, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in and suggested a scheme for their common escape.

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**Who acts:** Goat, Fox, words · **What happens:** jump down, drink, inform, be, suggest, thirst · **To what, where:** Goat, difficulty, scheme

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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, Fox, words), 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:pg21:4:33
# text = The Goat, mindful only of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, but just as he drank, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in and suggested a scheme for their common escape.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mindful	mindful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	thoughtlessly	thoughtlessly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	informed	inform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	both	both	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADV	RB	_	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	scheme	scheme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump down** | past | the Goat |  |  |  |  | thoughtlessly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | past | Goat |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | the Fox |  | Goat |  |  | of the difficulty | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of difficulty=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | words *= word* | the difficulty *not said here* |  |  |  | both, in *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | the Goat *not said here* | a scheme |  |  |  | for words's common escape | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scheme=Topic |
| 6 | **thirst** |  | Goat |  |  |  |  |  | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **escape** |  | words *= word* |  |  |  |  |  | nom escape «act intransitive»: 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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