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title: The splendor of the emerald shines in your neck and you unfold a tai… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The splendor of the emerald shines in your neck and you unfold a tail gorgeous with painted plumage.” Who acts: splendor, you. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 39

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The splendor of the emerald shines in your neck and you unfold a tail gorgeous with painted plumage.”

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**Who acts:** splendor, you · **What happens:** shine, unfold, paint · **To what, where:** neck, tail

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splendor, you), 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:pg21:12:39
# text = The splendor of the emerald shines in your neck and you unfold a tail gorgeous with painted plumage.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	unfold	unfold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	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 | **shine** | present | the splendor of the emerald |  |  | your neck |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in neck=Location |
| 2 | **unfold** | present | you | a tail |  |  |  | with painted plumage; gorgeous *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tail=Patient with plumage=Instrument |
| 3 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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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