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title: A HUNTSMAN, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chanc… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A HUNTSMAN, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish. Who acts: HUNTSMAN, Fisherman. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 14

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A HUNTSMAN, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish.

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**Who acts:** HUNTSMAN, Fisherman · **What happens:** return, fall in, bring, lade · **To what, where:** field, basket

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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 (HUNTSMAN, Fisherman), 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:pg21:7:14
# text = A HUNTSMAN, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	HUNTSMAN	HUNTSMAN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | a HUNTSMAN *not said here* |  |  | the field |  | with vessel's dogs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from field=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fall in** | past | a HUNTSMAN |  |  |  |  | by chance with a Fisherman | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by chance=Location |
| 3 | **bring** | past · progressive | a Fisherman | a basket |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
| 4 | **lade** | participle |  | a basket *not said here* |  |  |  | with fish; well *property* | tree rules |

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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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