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title: As they scampered off in large numbers to carry out their resolve, t… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: As they scampered off in large numbers to carry out their resolve, the Frogs lying on the banks of the lake heard the noise of their feet and rushed helter-skelter to the deep water for safety. Who acts: Hares, Frogs, feet. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 123

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As they scampered off in large numbers to carry out their resolve, the Frogs lying on the banks of the lake heard the noise of their feet and rushed helter-skelter to the deep water for safety.

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**Who acts:** Hares, Frogs, feet · **What happens:** scamper off, carry out, lie, hear, rush, noise · **To what, where:** large numbers, resolve, banks, noise

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hares, Frogs, feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg21:680`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg21:8:123
# text = As they scampered off in large numbers to carry out their resolve, the Frogs lying on the banks of the lake heard the noise of their feet and rushed helter-skelter to the deep water for safety.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	scampered	scamper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	resolve	resolve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
16	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	helter	helter	ADV	RB	_	33	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
33	skelter	skelter	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scamper off** | past | Hares *= hare* |  |  | large numbers |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Trajectory |
| 2 | **carry out** | to-infinitive | Hares *= hare* *not said here* | Hares's resolve |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolve=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | the Frogs *not said here* |  |  | the banks of the lake |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
| 4 | **hear** | past | the Frogs | the noise of Hares's feet |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 5 | **rush** | past | the Frogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the deep water *result*; for safety; skelter *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to water=Result |
| 6 | **noise** |  | Hares's feet |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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