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title: A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling wit… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. Who acts: SWALLOW. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 68

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A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds.

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**Who acts:** SWALLOW · **What happens:** return, dwell, build, hatch · **To what, where:** Swallow, wall, seven young birds

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SWALLOW), 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:pg21:6:68
# text = A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	SWALLOW	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
30	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | a SWALLOW *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from abroad=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **dwell** | gerund | a SWALLOW *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with men | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with man=Location |
| 3 | **build** | past | a SWALLOW | Swallow |  | the wall of a Court of Justice |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary nest=Product |
| 4 | **hatch** | past | a SWALLOW *not said here* | seven young birds |  | there |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent bird=Product |

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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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