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title: “I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I see no trace of any returning.” Who acts: Fox, many prints, feet, any. 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 72

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“I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I see no trace of any returning.”

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**Who acts:** Fox, many prints, feet, any · **What happens:** notice, be, enter, see, return, print · **To what, where:** cave, trace, feet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, many prints, feet, any), 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:pg21:4:72
# text = “I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I see no trace of any returning.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	notice	notice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	prints	print	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
22	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** *in a quote* | present | the Fox *= fox* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | many prints of feet |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **enter** *in a quote* | gerund | feet *not said here* | your cave |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present | the Fox *= fox* | no trace |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trace=Stimulus |
| 5 | **return** *in a quote* | gerund | any | no trace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Theme |
| 6 | **print** *in a quote* |  |  | feet |  |  |  |  | nom print «communication transitive»: of=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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