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title: The Camel, envious of the praises bestowed on the Monkey and desirin… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 115

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The Camel, envious of the praises bestowed on the Monkey and desiring to divert to himself the favour of the guests, proposed to stand up in his turn and dance for their amusement.

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**Who acts:** Monkey · **What happens:** bestow, desire, divert, propose, stand up, favour · **To what, where:** praises, favour, bull, turn, guests

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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 (Monkey), 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:pg21:14:115
# text = The Camel, envious of the praises bestowed on the Monkey and desiring to divert to himself the favour of the guests, proposed to stand up in his turn and dance for their amusement.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	desiring	desire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	divert	divert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	amusement	amusement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bestow** | participle |  | the praises *not said here* |  |  |  | on the Monkey | tree rules |
| 2 | **desire** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **divert** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the favour of the guests | bull |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus favour=Experiencer |
| 4 | **propose** | participle |  | the favour of the guests *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **stand up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | bull's turn and dance |  | for Monkey's amusement | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in turn=Location |
| 6 | **favour** |  |  | the guests |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **amuse** |  | Monkey |  |  |  |  |  | nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=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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