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title: The brood had almost grown to their full strength and attained the u… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The brood had almost grown to their full strength and attained the use of their wings and the full plumage of their feathers, when the owner of the field, looking over his ripe crop, said, “The time has come when I must ask all my neighbors to help me with my harvest.” Who acts: brood, time, I. A se
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 63

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The brood had almost grown to their full strength and attained the use of their wings and the full plumage of their feathers, when the owner of the field, looking over his ripe crop, said, “The time has come when I must ask all my neighbors to help me with my harvest.”

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**Who acts:** brood, time, I · **What happens:** grow, attain, look, say, come, ask · **To what, where:** use, neighbors, me, wings · **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 (brood, time, I), 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:pg21:12:63
# text = The brood had almost grown to their full strength and attained the use of their wings and the full plumage of their feathers, when the owner of the field, looking over his ripe crop, said, “The time has come when I must ask all my neighbors to help me with my harvest.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brood	brood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	attained	attain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
45	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	48	advmod	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	_
49	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	51	det:predet	_	_
50	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	advcl	_	_
54	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · perfect | the brood |  |  |  |  | to Lark's full strength; almost *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **attain** | past | the brood *not said here* | the use of Lark's wings and the full plumage of Lark's feathers |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the brood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over brood's ripe crop | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over crop=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the time |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | must | I | my neighbors |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent neighbor=Recipient |
| 7 | **help** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | me |  |  | with my harvest | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary with harvest=Theme |
| 8 | **use** |  |  | Lark's wings and the full plumage of Lark's feathers |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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