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title: Of course all the proud mammas from far and near brought their babies. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course all the proud mammas from far and near brought their babies. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Jupiter and the Monkey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, Jupiter and the Monkey, sentence 3

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Of course all the proud mammas from far and near brought their babies.

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**What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** babies

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Jupiter and the Monkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg19994:139:3
# text = Of course all the proud mammas from far and near brought their babies.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mammas	mamma	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	near	near	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past |  | mammas's babies |  |  |  | of all proud mammas | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent baby=Theme of mamma=Initial\_Location |

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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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