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title: “The lot of each,” replied Juno, “has been assigned by the will of t… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “The lot of each,” replied Juno, “has been assigned by the will of the Fates—to thee, beauty; to the eagle, strength; to the nightingale, song; to the raven, favourable, and to the crow, unfavourable auguries. Who acts: Juno, Fates. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fabl
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 41

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“The lot of each,” replied Juno, “has been assigned by the will of the Fates—to thee, beauty; to the eagle, strength; to the nightingale, song; to the raven, favourable, and to the crow, unfavourable auguries.

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**Who acts:** Juno, Fates · **What happens:** reply, assign · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Juno, Fates), 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:pg21:12:41
# text = “The lot of each,” replied Juno, “has been assigned by the will of the Fates—to thee, beauty; to the eagle, strength; to the nightingale, song; to the raven, favourable, and to the crow, unfavourable auguries.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Juno	Juno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	assigned	assign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Fates	fate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	to	to	ADP	TO	_	23	case	_	_
23	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	favourable	favourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	unfavourable	unfavourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	auguries	augury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Juno |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **assign** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | the Fates |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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