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title: The Crane, in his turn, asked the Fox to sup with him, and set befor… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Crane, in his turn, asked the Fox to sup with him, and set before her a flagon with a long narrow mouth, so that he could easily insert his neck and enjoy its contents at his leisure. Who acts: Crane, set flagon, Mercury. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, par
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 114

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The Crane, in his turn, asked the Fox to sup with him, and set before her a flagon with a long narrow mouth, so that he could easily insert his neck and enjoy its contents at his leisure.

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**Who acts:** Crane, set flagon, Mercury · **What happens:** ask, sup, insert, enjoy · **To what, where:** set flagon, Fox, neck, contents, leisure

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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 (Crane, set flagon, 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:pg21:13:114
# text = The Crane, in his turn, asked the Fox to sup with him, and set before her a flagon with a long narrow mouth, so that he could easily insert his neck and enjoy its contents at his leisure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crane	Crane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sup	sup	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	flagon	flagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	33	mark	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	insert	insert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	37	obj	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Crane | a set flagon with a long narrow mouth | the Fox |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sup** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a set flagon with a long narrow mouth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Mercury | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **insert** | could | Mercury | Mercury's neck |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme |
| 4 | **enjoy** | infinitive | Mercury *not said here* | Crane's contents |  | Mercury's leisure |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer contents=Stimulus |

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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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