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title: But the party ended dismally with all the birds entangled in the mes… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But the party ended dismally with all the birds entangled in the meshes of the Farmer's net. Who acts: party, birds. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Stork, sentence 2

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But the party ended dismally with all the birds entangled in the meshes of the Farmer's net.

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**Who acts:** party, birds · **What happens:** end, entangle

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (party, birds), 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:pg19994:23:2
# text = But the party ended dismally with all the birds entangled in the meshes of the Farmer's net.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dismally	dismally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	entangled	entangle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	meshes	mesh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | the party |  |  |  |  | dismally *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **entangle** | past | all birds |  |  |  |  | in the meshes of the Farmer's net | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mesh=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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