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title: A CAT, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing dresse… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A CAT, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing dressed himself up as a physician, and, taking his cane and a bag of instruments becoming his profession, went to call on them. Who acts: Birds, instruments, CAT. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 104

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A CAT, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing dressed himself up as a physician, and, taking his cane and a bag of instruments becoming his profession, went to call on them.

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**Who acts:** Birds, instruments, CAT · **What happens:** ail, dress up, take, become, go, call · **To what, where:** hearing, Dog, cane, profession · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Birds, instruments, CAT), 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:pg21:5:104
# text = A CAT, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing dressed himself up as a physician, and, taking his cane and a bag of instruments becoming his profession, went to call on them.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	CAT	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	aviary	aviary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	ailing	ail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
14	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	profession	profession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
35	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ail** | past · progressive | the Birds in a certain aviary | hearing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress up** | participle | the Birds in a certain aviary *not said here* | Dog |  |  |  | as a physician | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the Birds in a certain aviary *not said here* | Dog's cane and a bag of instruments |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cane=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | gerund | instruments *not said here* | Dog's profession |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient profession=Result |
| 5 | **go** | past | a CAT |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **call** | to-infinitive | a CAT *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on Birds *= bird* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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