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title: When the pool dried up under the summer’s heat, they left it and set… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: When the pool dried up under the summer’s heat, they left it and set out together for another home. Who acts: pool, Frogs, summer. 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 27

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When the pool dried up under the summer’s heat, they left it and set out together for another home.

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**Who acts:** pool, Frogs, summer · **What happens:** dry up, leave, set out, heat · **To what, where:** heat, pool

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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 (pool, Frogs, summer), 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:pg21:9:27
# text = When the pool dried up under the summer’s heat, they left it and set out together for another home.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry up** | participle | the pool |  |  | the summer's heat |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | past | Frogs *= frog* | pool |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | infinitive | Frogs *= frog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for another home; together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **heat** |  | the summer |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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