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title: He took the Ass home and put him in the straw-yard with his other As… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He took the Ass home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which the new animal left all the others and at once joined the one that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all. Who acts: Ass, new animal, one. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fabl
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 43

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He took the Ass home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which the new animal left all the others and at once joined the one that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all.

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**Who acts:** Ass, new animal, one · **What happens:** take, put, leave, join, be · **To what, where:** Ass home, Ass, others, one

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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 (Ass, new animal, one), 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:pg21:14:43
# text = He took the Ass home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which the new animal left all the others and at once joined the one that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Ass	Ass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Asses	Ass	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	31	obl	_	_
31	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	37	advmod	_	_
37	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	amod	_	_
41	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nmod	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Ass | the Ass home |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | Ass *not said here* | Ass |  |  |  | in the straw yard; with Ass's other Asses | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in yard=Destination |
| 3 | **leave** | participle | the new animal | all others |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent other=Theme upon which=Location |
| 4 | **join** | past | the new animal *not said here* | the one |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | the one |  |  |  |  | idle *property* | 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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