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title: A FAMISHED FOX saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A FAMISHED FOX saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a trellised vine. Who acts: FAMISHED FOX, ripe black grapes. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 74

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A FAMISHED FOX saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a trellised vine.

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**Who acts:** FAMISHED FOX, ripe black grapes · **What happens:** famish, see, hang, trellis · **To what, where:** clusters, trellised vine

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FAMISHED FOX, ripe black grapes), 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:pg21:11:74
# text = A FAMISHED FOX saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a trellised vine.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	FAMISHED	famish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	FOX	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	clusters	cluster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	trellised	trellis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **famish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | a FAMISHED FOX | some clusters of ripe black grapes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cluster=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hang** | gerund | ripe black grapes *not said here* |  |  | a trellised vine |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **trellis** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** «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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