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title: Steadying himself with the Goat’s horns, he safely reached the mouth… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Steadying himself with the Goat’s horns, he safely reached the mouth of the well and made off as fast as he could. Who acts: Fox. 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 36

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Steadying himself with the Goat’s horns, he safely reached the mouth of the well and made off as fast as he could.

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**Who acts:** Fox · **What happens:** steady, reach, make off · **To what, where:** Fox, mouth

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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 (Fox), 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:pg21:4:36
# text = Steadying himself with the Goat’s horns, he safely reached the mouth of the well and made off as fast as he could.
1	Steadying	steady	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steady** | gerund | Fox *not said here* | Fox |  |  |  | with the Goat's horns | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with horn=Instrument |
| 2 | **reach** | past | Fox | the mouth of the well |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |
| 3 | **make off** | participle | Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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