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title: These he placed steaming hot on the table, and the comrades sat down… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: These he placed steaming hot on the table, and the comrades sat down very cheerfully to enjoy the meal. Who acts: These, comrades. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Satyr, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Satyr, sentence 7

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These he placed steaming hot on the table, and the comrades sat down very cheerfully to enjoy the meal.

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**Who acts:** These, comrades · **What happens:** place, steam, sit down, enjoy · **To what, where:** meal

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Satyr. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, comrades), 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:pg19994:136:7
# text = These he placed steaming hot on the table, and the comrades sat down very cheerfully to enjoy the meal.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	steaming	steam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | These |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **steam** | gerund | These *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the table; hot *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on table=Instrument |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | the comrades |  |  |  |  | cheerfully *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive | the comrades *not said here* | the meal |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus |

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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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