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title: Listening to these flattering words, the Crow forgot all her suspici… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Listening to these flattering words, the Crow forgot all her suspicion, and also her breakfast. Who acts: Crow. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 14

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Listening to these flattering words, the Crow forgot all her suspicion, and also her breakfast.

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**Who acts:** Crow · **What happens:** listen, flatter, forget, suspect · **To what, where:** suspicion

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crow), 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:pg19994:132:14
# text = Listening to these flattering words, the Crow forgot all her suspicion, and also her breakfast.
1	Listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	flattering	flatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | gerund | the Crow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to this flattering words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
| 2 | **flatter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **forget** | past | the Crow | Crow's suspicion |  |  |  | Crow's breakfast *obl* | tree rules |
| 4 | **suspect** |  | Crow |  |  |  |  |  | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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