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title: The Woodcutter advised him to take shelter in his own hut, so the Fo… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Woodcutter advised him to take shelter in his own hut, so the Fox crept in and hid himself in a corner. Who acts: Woodcutter, Hound, Fox. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 79

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The Woodcutter advised him to take shelter in his own hut, so the Fox crept in and hid himself in a corner.

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**Who acts:** Woodcutter, Hound, Fox · **What happens:** advise, take, creep in, hide · **To what, where:** Hound, shelter, own hut, Woodcutter, corner

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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 (Woodcutter, Hound, Fox), 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:pg21:8:79
# text = The Woodcutter advised him to take shelter in his own hut, so the Fox crept in and hid himself in a corner.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Woodcutter	Woodcutter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | the Woodcutter | Hound |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hound *not said here* | shelter |  | Woodcutter's own hut |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in hut=Location |
| 3 | **creep in** | past | the Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hide** | past | the Fox *not said here* | Woodcutter |  | a corner |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=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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