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title: AN ASS and a Cock were in a straw-yard together when a Lion, despera… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: AN ASS and a Cock were in a straw-yard together when a Lion, desperate from hunger, approached the spot. Who acts: ASS, straw yard. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 109

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AN ASS and a Cock were in a straw-yard together when a Lion, desperate from hunger, approached the spot.

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**Who acts:** ASS, straw yard · **What happens:** be, approach · **To what, where:** spot

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ASS, straw yard), 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:pg21:7:109
# text = AN ASS and a Cock were in a straw-yard together when a Lion, desperate from hunger, approached the spot.
1	AN	and	CCONJ	CC	Typo=Yes	11	cc	_	_
2	ASS	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	desperate	desperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
21	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | ASS and a Cock |  |  |  |  | in a straw yard | tree rules |
| 2 | **approach** | past | a straw yard | the spot |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |

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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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