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title: A FOX invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his enterta… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A FOX invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his entertainment but some soup made of pulse, which was poured out into a broad flat stone dish. Who acts: FOX, Mercury. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 112

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A FOX invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his entertainment but some soup made of pulse, which was poured out into a broad flat stone dish.

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**Who acts:** FOX, Mercury · **What happens:** invite, provide, make, pour out, entertain · **To what, where:** Crane, nothing, soup, pulse, broad flat stone dish

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FOX, Mercury), 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:pg21:13:112
# text = A FOX invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his entertainment but some soup made of pulse, which was poured out into a broad flat stone dish.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	FOX	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	pulse	pulse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | past | a FOX | a Crane |  |  |  | to supper | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crane=Recipient |
| 2 | **provide** | past | a FOX *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  | for Mercury's entertainment but some soup | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition nothing=Theme for entertainment=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | some soup *not said here* |  |  |  | of pulse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **pour out** | past · passive |  | pulse |  | a broad flat stone dish |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into dish=Destination |
| 5 | **entertain** |  | Mercury |  |  |  |  |  | nom entertainment «act transitive»: poss=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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