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title: His ‘Mountain delivered of a Mouse,’ produces the moral of his fable… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: His ‘Mountain delivered of a Mouse,’ produces the moral of his fable in ridicule of pompous pretenders; and his Crow, when she drops her cheese, lets fall, as it were by accident, the strongest admonition against the power of flattery. Who acts: Mountain, Crow, fall. A sentence of «Three hundred Aes
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 35

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His ‘Mountain delivered of a Mouse,’ produces the moral of his fable in ridicule of pompous pretenders; and his Crow, when she drops her cheese, lets fall, as it were by accident, the strongest admonition against the power of flattery.

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**Who acts:** Mountain, Crow, fall · **What happens:** deliver, produce, drop, let, be, ridicule · **To what, where:** moral, cheese, fall, pompous pretenders

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mountain, Crow, fall), 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:pg21:1:35
# text = His ‘Mountain delivered of a Mouse,’ produces the moral of his fable in ridicule of pompous pretenders; and his Crow, when she drops her cheese, lets fall, as it were by accident, the strongest admonition against the power of flattery.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	produces	produce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ridicule	ridicule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	pompous	pompous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pretenders	pretender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	43	amod	_	_
43	admonition	admonition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
44	against	against	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	flattery	flattery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** | past | Mountain |  |  |  |  | of a Mouse | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of mouse=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **produce** | present | Mountain *not said here* | the moral of Dodsley's fable in ridicule of pompous pretenders |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moral=Result |
| 3 | **drop** | present | Dodsley's Crow | Fable's cheese |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | present | Dodsley's Crow *not said here* | fall |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | fall |  |  |  |  | as accident | tree rules |
| 6 | **ridicule** |  |  | pompous pretenders |  |  |  |  | nom ridicule «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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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