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title: Perceiving them to be very heavy, they danced about for joy and supp… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Perceiving them to be very heavy, they danced about for joy and supposed that they had taken a large catch. Who acts: Perceiving, nets. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 14

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Perceiving them to be very heavy, they danced about for joy and supposed that they had taken a large catch.

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**Who acts:** Perceiving, nets · **What happens:** perceive, be, dance, suppose, take · **To what, where:** nets, large catch

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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 (Perceiving, nets), 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:pg21:13:14
# text = Perceiving them to be very heavy, they danced about for joy and supposed that they had taken a large catch.
1	Perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | gerund |  | nets *= net* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Perceiving |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dance** | past | nets *= net* |  |  |  |  | for joy; about *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **suppose** | participle | nets *= net* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | past · perfect | nets *= net* | a large catch |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catch=Theme |

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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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