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description: A VERY HUNGRY FOX, seeing some bread and meat left by shepherds in the hollow of an oak, crept into the hole and made a hearty meal. Who acts: HUNGRY FOX. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 21

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A VERY HUNGRY FOX, seeing some bread and meat left by shepherds in the hollow of an oak, crept into the hole and made a hearty meal.

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**Who acts:** HUNGRY FOX · **What happens:** see, leave, creep, make · **To what, where:** bread, meat, hollow, hole, hearty meal

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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 (HUNGRY 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:pg21:9:21
# text = A VERY HUNGRY FOX, seeing some bread and meat left by shepherds in the hollow of an oak, crept into the hole and made a hearty meal.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	VERY	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	HUNGRY	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	FOX	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hollow	hollow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	hearty	hearty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | a HUNGRY FOX *not said here* | some bread and meat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | meat *not said here* |  |  |  | in the hollow of a oak *result*; by shepherds | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in hollow=Result |
| 3 | **creep** | past | a HUNGRY FOX |  |  | the hole |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | past | a HUNGRY FOX *not said here* | a hearty meal |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meal=Product |

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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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