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title: It was mounted on an Ass adorned with garlands and gorgeous trapping… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: It was mounted on an Ass adorned with garlands and gorgeous trappings, and a grand procession of priests and pages followed it through the streets. Who acts: grand procession, priests. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass Carrying the Image, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass Carrying the Image, sentence 2

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It was mounted on an Ass adorned with garlands and gorgeous trappings, and a grand procession of priests and pages followed it through the streets.

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**Who acts:** grand procession, priests · **What happens:** mount, adorn, follow, proceed · **To what, where:** Image, Ass, streets

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass Carrying the Image. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grand procession, priests), 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:pg19994:35:2
# text = It was mounted on an Ass adorned with garlands and gorgeous trappings, and a grand procession of priests and pages followed it through the streets.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	garlands	garland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trappings	trapping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past · passive |  | Image |  | a Ass |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on ass=Destination |
| 2 | **adorn** | participle |  | a Ass *not said here* |  |  |  | with garlands and gorgeous trappings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with garland=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | past | a grand procession of priests and pages | Image |  | the streets |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme through street=Trajectory |
| 4 | **proceed** |  | priests and pages |  |  |  |  |  | nom procession «event intransitive»: of=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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