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title: A FROG once upon a time came forth from his home in the marsh and pr… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A FROG once upon a time came forth from his home in the marsh and proclaimed to all the beasts that he was a learned physician, skilled in the use of drugs and able to heal all diseases. Who acts: FROG. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependen
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 86

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A FROG once upon a time came forth from his home in the marsh and proclaimed to all the beasts that he was a learned physician, skilled in the use of drugs and able to heal all diseases.

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**Who acts:** FROG · **What happens:** come, proclaim, learn, be, skill, heal · **To what, where:** home, beasts, learned physician, use, diseases, drugs

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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 (FROG), 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:pg21:13:86
# text = A FROG once upon a time came forth from his home in the marsh and proclaimed to all the beasts that he was a learned physician, skilled in the use of drugs and able to heal all diseases.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	FROG	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	skilled	skill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	drugs	drug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a FROG upon a time |  |  | Frog's home |  | in the marsh; forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from home=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **proclaim** | participle | a FROG upon a time *not said here* |  | all beasts |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to beast=Recipient |
| 3 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Frog | a learned physician |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **skill** | participle |  | a learned physician *not said here* |  | the use of drugs |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **heal** | to-infinitive |  | all diseases |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent disease=Patient |
| 7 | **use** |  |  | drugs |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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