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title: The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth wat… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them. Who acts: grapes, mouth. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Grapes, sentence 2

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The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them.

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**Who acts:** grapes, mouth · **What happens:** seem, burst, water, gaze

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grapes, mouth), 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:pg19994:14:2
# text = The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	watered	water	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	longingly	longingly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the grapes |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **burst** | to-infinitive | the grapes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with juice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **water** | past | the Fox's mouth |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gaze** | past | mouth |  |  |  |  | at grapes *= grape*; longingly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |

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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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