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title: Seeing a statue of Jupiter among the rest, he inquired the price of… — Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing a statue of Jupiter among the rest, he inquired the price of it. Who acts: Notoriety. A sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 412

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Seeing a statue of Jupiter among the rest, he inquired the price of it.

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**Who acts:** Notoriety · **What happens:** see, inquire · **To what, where:** statue, price

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This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Notoriety), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg11339:412
# text = Seeing a statue of Jupiter among the rest, he inquired the price of it.
# source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | Notoriety *not said here* | a statue of Jupiter |  |  |  | among the rest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer statue=Stimulus |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | Notoriety | the price of price |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent price=Recipient |

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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:** «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). **Annotation:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`mova-tales-silver-en.conllu`), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence `gutenberg:pg11339:412`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.3/).

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