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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 73

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A violent storm arose, and with the vessel in great danger of sinking, the one in the stern inquired of the pilot which of the two ends of the ship would go down first.

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**Who acts:** violent storm, great danger, pilot · **What happens:** arise, sink, inquire, go down · **To what, where:** vessel, great danger, stern

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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 (violent storm, great danger, pilot), 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:pg21:13:73
# text = A violent storm arose, and with the vessel in great danger of sinking, the one in the stern inquired of the pilot which of the two ends of the ship would go down first.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stern	stern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pilot	pilot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | a violent storm | the vessel |  | great danger |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vessel=Theme |
| 2 | **sink** | gerund | great danger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | participle |  | the stern *not said here* |  |  |  | of the pilot | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of pilot=Recipient |
| 4 | **go down** | would | the pilot |  |  |  | of the two ends | of the ship; down, first *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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