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title: The Owl next advised them to pluck up the seed of the flax, which me… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Owl next advised them to pluck up the seed of the flax, which men had sown, as it was a plant which boded no good to them. Who acts: Owl, poison, acorn, plant. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 17

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The Owl next advised them to pluck up the seed of the flax, which men had sown, as it was a plant which boded no good to them.

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**Who acts:** Owl, poison, acorn, plant · **What happens:** advise, pluck up, sow, be, bode · **To what, where:** poison, seed, flax, good

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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 (Owl, poison, acorn, plant), 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:pg21:14:17
# text = The Owl next advised them to pluck up the seed of the flax, which men had sown, as it was a plant which boded no good to them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	next	next	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sown	sow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	boded	bode	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | the Owl | poison |  |  |  | next *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pluck up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | poison *not said here* | the seed of the flax |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |
| 3 | **sow** | past · perfect · passive |  | the flax |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | acorn |  |  |  |  | as a plant | tree rules |
| 5 | **bode** | past | a plant | no good |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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