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title: A Fox, who had gone round them at a distance several times, saw them… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A Fox, who had gone round them at a distance several times, saw them both stretched on the ground with the Kid lying untouched in the middle. Who acts: Fox, Seagull, Kid. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 116

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A Fox, who had gone round them at a distance several times, saw them both stretched on the ground with the Kid lying untouched in the middle.

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**Who acts:** Fox, Seagull, Kid · **What happens:** go, see, stretch, lie · **To what, where:** ground, middle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, Seagull, Kid), 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:pg21:9:116
# text = A Fox, who had gone round them at a distance several times, saw them both stretched on the ground with the Kid lying untouched in the middle.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	both	both	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	untouched	untouched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | a Fox |  |  |  | time | round Seagull; at a distance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round they=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | a Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stretch** | past | Seagull |  |  | the ground |  | with the Kid; both *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with kid=Instrument |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | the Kid *not said here* |  |  | the middle |  | untouched *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=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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