--- title: Not long afterwards there was a festival in the village and every on… — Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop · tree and pragmatics description: Not long afterwards there was a festival in the village and every one kept holiday: but, whereas the Ox was turned loose into the pasture, the Heifer was seized and led off to sacrifice. Who acts: festival, one. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (festival, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg11339:769 # text = Not long afterwards there was a festival in the village and every one kept holiday: but, whereas the Ox was turned loose into the pasture, the Heifer was seized and led off to sacrifice. # 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 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 festival festival NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 whereas whereas SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 advcl _ _ 24 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 pasture pasture NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Heifer heifer NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 seized seize VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 conj _ _ 35 off off ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 sacrifice sacrifice NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a festival in the village | | | there | | afterwards *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | past | every one | holiday | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | past · passive | | the Ox | | the pasture | | loose *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into pasture=Trajectory | | 4 | **seize** | past · passive | | the Heifer | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **lead off** | participle | | | | | | to sacrifice | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to sacrifice=Patient | 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. **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:pg11339:769`. **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/). - ← previous: [Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by…, 682](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11339/682/) - next →: [Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by…, 920](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11339/920/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11339/)