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title: While he thus examined everything in turn, he spied the tips of the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: While he thus examined everything in turn, he spied the tips of the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the straw. Who acts: straw, antlers. 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 49

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While he thus examined everything in turn, he spied the tips of the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the straw.

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**Who acts:** straw, antlers · **What happens:** examine, spy, peep out · **To what, where:** everything, turn, tips, straw

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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 (straw, antlers), 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:pg21:7:49
# text = While he thus examined everything in turn, he spied the tips of the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the straw.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spied	spy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Stag	Stag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **examine** | past | straw | everything |  | turn |  | thus *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 2 | **spy** | past | straw | the tips of the antlers of the Stag |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tip=Stimulus |
| 3 | **peep out** | gerund | the antlers of the Stag *not said here* | the straw |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent straw=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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