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title: At a great celebration in honor of King Lion, the Monkey was asked t… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: At a great celebration in honor of King Lion, the Monkey was asked to dance for the company. Who acts: Monkey. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Camel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Camel, sentence 1

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At a great celebration in honor of King Lion, the Monkey was asked to dance for the company.

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**Who acts:** Monkey · **What happens:** ask, dance, honor · **To what, where:** Monkey, great celebration, King Lion

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Camel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkey), 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:pg19994:42:1
# text = At a great celebration in honor of King Lion, the Monkey was asked to dance for the company.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	celebration	celebration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · passive |  | the Monkey |  | a great celebration in honor of King Lion |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **dance** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Monkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the company | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **honor** |  |  | King Lion |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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