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title: A STAG, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the dang… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A STAG, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen. Who acts: Stag. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 39

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A STAG, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen.

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**Who acts:** Stag · **What happens:** chase, blind, run, take, hide · **To what, where:** STAG, danger, shelter, farmyard, shed

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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 (Stag), 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:pg21:7:39
# text = A STAG, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	STAG	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	roundly	roundly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	blinded	blind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	among	among	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **chase** | participle |  | a STAG *not said here* |  |  |  | by the hounds; roundly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by hound=Trajectory |
| 2 | **blind** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by fear to the danger | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | past · progressive | Stag | the danger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Trajectory |
| 4 | **take** | past | a STAG | shelter |  | a farmyard |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in farmyard=Location |
| 5 | **hide** | past | a STAG *not said here* | Stag |  | a shed |  | among the oxen | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in shed=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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