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title: A CROW was jealous of the Raven, because he was considered a bird of… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A CROW was jealous of the Raven, because he was considered a bird of good omen and always attracted the attention of men, who noted by his flight the good or evil course of future events. Who acts: CROW, men. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dep
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 62

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A CROW was jealous of the Raven, because he was considered a bird of good omen and always attracted the attention of men, who noted by his flight the good or evil course of future events.

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**Who acts:** CROW, men · **What happens:** be, consider, attract, note, attend · **To what, where:** MAN, attention

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CROW, men), 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:pg21:10:62
# text = A CROW was jealous of the Raven, because he was considered a bird of good omen and always attracted the attention of men, who noted by his flight the good or evil course of future events.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	CROW	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	omen	omen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	noted	note	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a CROW |  |  |  |  | of the Raven; jealous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **consider** | past · passive |  | MAN |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme bird=Attribute |
| 3 | **attract** | past |  | the attention of men |  |  |  | always *property* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 4 | **note** | past | men |  |  |  |  | by MAN's flight  the good course of future events | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **attend** |  | men |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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