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title: The Stork gladly accepted the invitation and arrived in good time an… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Stork gladly accepted the invitation and arrived in good time and with a very good appetite. Who acts: Stork. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 3

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The Stork gladly accepted the invitation and arrived in good time and with a very good appetite.

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**Who acts:** Stork · **What happens:** accept, arrive · **To what, where:** invitation

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox 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 (Stork), 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:pg19994:50:3
# text = The Stork gladly accepted the invitation and arrived in good time and with a very good appetite.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Stork	Stork	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | the Stork | the invitation |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | the Stork *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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