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title: The soup fell out of the long bill of the Crane at every mouthful, a… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The soup fell out of the long bill of the Crane at every mouthful, and his vexation at not being able to eat afforded the Fox much amusement. Who acts: soup, vexation, Mercury. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 113

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The soup fell out of the long bill of the Crane at every mouthful, and his vexation at not being able to eat afforded the Fox much amusement.

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**Who acts:** soup, vexation, Mercury · **What happens:** fall, not be, eat, afford, bill, vex · **To what, where:** vexation, long bill, Fox, Crane

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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 (soup, vexation, 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:pg21:13:113
# text = The soup fell out of the long bill of the Crane at every mouthful, and his vexation at not being able to eat afforded the Fox much amusement.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Crane	Crane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	vexation	vexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
22	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	afforded	afford	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	amusement	amusement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the soup | Mercury's vexation |  | the long bill of the Crane |  | at every mouthful | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out bill=Location |
| 2 | **not** **is** | gerund | Mercury's vexation *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Mercury's vexation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **afford** | participle | Mercury's vexation *not said here* | the Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bill** |  |  | the Crane |  |  |  |  | nom bill «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **vex** |  | Mercury |  |  |  |  |  | nom vexation «feeling 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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