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title: With his head full of this foolish idea, he became so puffed up with… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: With his head full of this foolish idea, he became so puffed up with pride and vanity that he halted and started to bray loudly. Who acts: Ass. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass Carrying the Image, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass Carrying the Image, sentence 4

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With his head full of this foolish idea, he became so puffed up with pride and vanity that he halted and started to bray loudly.

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**Who acts:** Ass · **What happens:** become, puff up, halt, start, bray · **To what, where:** vanity

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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 (Ass), 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:pg19994:35:4
# text = With his head full of this foolish idea, he became so puffed up with pride and vanity that he halted and started to bray loudly.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	puffed	puff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	halted	halt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	bray	bray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Ass |  |  |  |  | with Ass's head | tree rules |
| 2 | **puff up** | participle | Ass *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with pride and vanity | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pride=Theme |
| 3 | **halt** | past | Ass | vanity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector vanity=Eventuality |
| 4 | **start** | past | Ass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **bray** | to-infinitive | Ass *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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