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title: He moved about in so utterly ridiculous a manner that the Beasts, in… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He moved about in so utterly ridiculous a manner that the Beasts, in a fit of indignation, set upon him with clubs and drove him out of the assembly. Who acts: bull, Beasts. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 116

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He moved about in so utterly ridiculous a manner that the Beasts, in a fit of indignation, set upon him with clubs and drove him out of the assembly.

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**Who acts:** bull, Beasts · **What happens:** move about, set, drive · **To what, where:** ridiculous manner, bull, 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 (bull, Beasts), 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:pg21:14:116
# text = He moved about in so utterly ridiculous a manner that the Beasts, in a fit of indignation, set upon him with clubs and drove him out of the assembly.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Beasts	Beast	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	indignation	indignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move about** | past | bull |  |  | a ridiculous manner |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in manner=Trajectory |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | the Beasts |  |  |  |  | upon bull; with clubs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon he=Destination |
| 3 | **drive** | past | bull *not said here* | bull |  | the assembly |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out assembly=Trajectory |

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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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