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description: Soon afterwards, observing that he was an animal altogether deficient in spirit, he assumed such boldness as to put a bridle in his mouth, and to let a child drive him. Who acts: MAN, child. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and t
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 92

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Soon afterwards, observing that he was an animal altogether deficient in spirit, he assumed such boldness as to put a bridle in his mouth, and to let a child drive him.

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**Who acts:** MAN, child · **What happens:** observe, be, assume, put, let, drive · **To what, where:** deficient, spirit, animal, such boldness, bridle, mouth

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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 (MAN, child), 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:pg21:10:92
# text = Soon afterwards, observing that he was an animal altogether deficient in spirit, he assumed such boldness as to put a bridle in his mouth, and to let a child drive him.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	observing	observe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
10	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	deficient	deficient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	boldness	boldness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | gerund | MAN *not said here* | deficient |  | spirit |  | afterwards *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deficient=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | past | MAN | a animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **assume** | past | MAN | such boldness |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boldness=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | to-infinitive | MAN *not said here* | a bridle |  | MAN's mouth |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme in mouth=Destination |
| 5 | **let** | to-infinitive | MAN *not said here* | a child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **drive** | infinitive | a child *not said here* | MAN |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:** «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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