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title: The Fox did not vote for the Monkey and was much disgusted with the… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fox did not vote for the Monkey and was much disgusted with the Animals for electing so unworthy a ruler. Who acts: Fox. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Monkey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Monkey, sentence 3

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The Fox did not vote for the Monkey and was much disgusted with the Animals for electing so unworthy a ruler.

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**Who acts:** Fox · **What happens:** not vote, disgust, elect

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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 (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:pg19994:120:3
# text = The Fox did not vote for the Monkey and was much disgusted with the Animals for electing so unworthy a ruler.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	disgusted	disgust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	electing	elect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **vote** | past · do-support | the Fox |  |  |  |  | for the Monkey *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for monkey=Goal |
| 2 | **disgust** | past · passive | the Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **elect** | gerund | the Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unworthy *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** «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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