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title: Then the Stag perceived that the legs of which he was so ashamed wou… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Stag perceived that the legs of which he was so ashamed would have saved him had it not been for the useless ornaments on his head. Who acts: Stag, legs. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag and His Reflection, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Aesop for Children, The Stag and His Reflection, sentence 6

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Then the Stag perceived that the legs of which he was so ashamed would have saved him had it not been for the useless ornaments on his head.

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**Who acts:** Stag, legs · **What happens:** perceive, be, save, have, not be · **To what, where:** Stag, panther, head

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag and His Reflection. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stag, legs), 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:pg19994:53:6
# text = Then the Stag perceived that the legs of which he was so ashamed would have saved him had it not been for the useless ornaments on his head.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Stag	Stag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	xcomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | the Stag |  |  |  | then |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | Stag |  |  |  |  | of the legs; ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | would · perfect | Stag *not said here* | Stag |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | the legs | panther |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **is** | participle |  |  |  | Stag's head |  | for the useless ornaments | tree rules |

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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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