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title: This he did so well, with a thousand funny capers and grimaces, that… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: This he did so well, with a thousand funny capers and grimaces, that the Animals were carried entirely off their feet with enthusiasm, and then and there, elected him their king. Who acts: This, thousand funny capers. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Monkey, with its 
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Monkey, sentence 2

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This he did so well, with a thousand funny capers and grimaces, that the Animals were carried entirely off their feet with enthusiasm, and then and there, elected him their king.

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**Who acts:** This, thousand funny capers · **What happens:** do, carry, elect · **To what, where:** Animals, feet, Monkey

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Monkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, thousand funny capers), 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:pg19994:120:2
# text = This he did so well, with a thousand funny capers and grimaces, that the Animals were carried entirely off their feet with enthusiasm, and then and there, elected him their king.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	capers	caper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	grimaces	grimace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
20	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	enthusiasm	enthusiasm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	elected	elect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | This |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | past · passive | thousand funny capers and grimaces *not said here* | the Animals |  | Animals's feet |  | with enthusiasm; entirely *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme off foot=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **elect** | past | This *not said here* | Monkey |  |  | then |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme king=Attribute |

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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:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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