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title: His road home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: His road home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step, fell by accident and rose up again with his load considerably lighter, as the water melted the sack. Who acts: road, water. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tr
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 55

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His road home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step, fell by accident and rose up again with his load considerably lighter, as the water melted the sack.

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**Who acts:** road, water · **What happens:** lie, make, fall, rise up, melt · **To what, where:** stream, false step, sack

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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 (road, 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:pg21:5:55
# text = His road home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step, fell by accident and rose up again with his load considerably lighter, as the water melted the sack.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	considerably	considerably	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	melted	melt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | PEDDLER's road |  |  | a stream |  | into PEDDLER's Ass; home *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | PEDDLER's road *not said here* | a false step |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset step=Product |
| 3 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by accident | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by accident=Location |
| 4 | **rise up** | past |  |  |  |  | again | with PEDDLER's load | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **melt** | past | the water | the sack |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sack=Result |

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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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