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title: AN ASS climbed up to the roof of a building, and frisking about ther… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: AN ASS climbed up to the roof of a building, and frisking about there, broke in the tiling. Who acts: ASS. 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 35

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AN ASS climbed up to the roof of a building, and frisking about there, broke in the tiling.

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**Who acts:** ASS · **What happens:** climb up, frisk, break · **To what, where:** roof, tiling

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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), 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:pg21:7:35
# text = AN ASS climbed up to the roof of a building, and frisking about there, broke in the tiling.
1	AN	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ASS	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	frisking	frisk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tiling	tiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **climb up** | past | a ASS |  |  | the roof of a building |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to roof=Destination |
| 2 | **frisk** | gerund | a ASS *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **break** | past |  |  |  | the tiling |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tiling=Location |

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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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