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description: Having vastly delighted the assembly, he sat down amidst universal applause. Who acts: Having, bull. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 114

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Having vastly delighted the assembly, he sat down amidst universal applause.

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**Who acts:** Having, bull · **What happens:** have, delight, sit down · **To what, where:** assembly

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Having, bull), 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:pg21:14:114
# text = Having vastly delighted the assembly, he sat down amidst universal applause.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	vastly	vastly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	delighted	delight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	applause	applause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | vastly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **delight** | past | Having | the assembly |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus assembly=Experiencer |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | bull |  |  |  |  | amidst universal applause | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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