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title: No longer could a fat young hen tempt Master Fox to dinner, nor a te… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: No longer could a fat young hen tempt Master Fox to dinner, nor a tender lamb rouse greedy Sir Wolf's appetite. Who acts: fat young hen, tender lamb. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 3

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No longer could a fat young hen tempt Master Fox to dinner, nor a tender lamb rouse greedy Sir Wolf's appetite.

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**Who acts:** fat young hen, tender lamb · **What happens:** tempt, rouse · **To what, where:** Master Fox, appetite

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fat young hen, tender lamb), 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:pg19994:125:3
# text = No longer could a fat young hen tempt Master Fox to dinner, nor a tender lamb rouse greedy Sir Wolf's appetite.
1	No	no	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tempt	tempt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rouse	rouse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tempt** | could | a fat young hen |  | Master Fox |  |  | to dinner; long *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient |
| 2 | **rouse** | present | a tender lamb | greedy Wolf  Sir's appetite |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Patient |

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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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