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title: Shortly afterward, refreshments, consisting mostly of Camel's hump a… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly afterward, refreshments, consisting mostly of Camel's hump and ribs, were served to the company. Who acts: refreshments. 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 8

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Shortly afterward, refreshments, consisting mostly of Camel's hump and ribs, were served to the company.

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**Who acts:** refreshments · **What happens:** consist, serve · **To what, where:** refreshments, company

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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 (refreshments), 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:pg19994:42:8
# text = Shortly afterward, refreshments, consisting mostly of Camel's hump and ribs, were served to the company.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	refreshments	refreshment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	consisting	consist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Camel	Camel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	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	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | gerund | refreshments *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Camel's hump and ribs | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | past · passive |  | refreshments | the company |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to company=Recipient |

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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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