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title: A DOVE shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young o… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A DOVE shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young ones which she had hatched. Who acts: DOVE. 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 48

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A DOVE shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young ones which she had hatched.

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**Who acts:** DOVE · **What happens:** shut up, boast, hatch · **To what, where:** DOVE, cage, young ones

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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 (DOVE), 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:pg21:14:48
# text = A DOVE shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young ones which she had hatched.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	DOVE	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	boasting	boast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut up** | participle |  | a DOVE *not said here* |  | a cage |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **boast** *speech: other* | past · progressive | a DOVE |  |  |  |  | of the large number of young ones | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hatch** | past · perfect · passive |  | young ones |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product |

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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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