--- title: When no one appeared willing to buy it, in order to attract purchase… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: When no one appeared willing to buy it, in order to attract purchasers, he cried out that he had the statue to sell of a benefactor who bestowed wealth and helped to heap up riches. Who acts: one, Mercury, benefactor. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Mercury, benefactor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:12:54 # text = When no one appeared willing to buy it, in order to attract purchasers, he cried out that he had the statue to sell of a benefactor who bestowed wealth and helped to heap up riches. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 3 det _ _ 3 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 5 willing willing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 13 mark _ _ 11 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 fixed _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 attract attract VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 14 purchasers purchaser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 statue statue NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 benefactor benefactor NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 bestowed bestow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 heap heap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 riches rich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | no one | | | | | willing *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | reply | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **attract** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | purchasers | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchaser=Patient | | 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | Mercury | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | past | Mercury | the statue | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Patient | | 6 | **sell** | to-infinitive | Mercury *not said here* | the statue *not said here* | | | | of a benefactor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **bestow** | past | a benefactor | wealth | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **help** | past | a benefactor *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 9 | **heap up** | to-infinitive | a benefactor *not said here* | riches | | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rich=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/55/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/)