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title: And, lastly, he inveighed against Minerva because she had not contri… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 66

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And, lastly, he inveighed against Minerva because she had not contrived iron wheels in the foundation of her house, so its inhabitants might more easily remove if a neighbor proved unpleasant.

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**Who acts:** Momus, inhabitants, neighbor · **What happens:** inveigh, not contrive, remove, prove · **To what, where:** Minerva, foundation

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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 (Momus, inhabitants, neighbor), 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:pg21:14:66
# text = And, lastly, he inveighed against Minerva because she had not contrived iron wheels in the foundation of her house, so its inhabitants might more easily remove if a neighbor proved unpleasant.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lastly	lastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	inveighed	inveigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Minerva	Minerva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	contrived	contrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
14	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
34	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **inveigh** | past | Momus |  |  |  |  | against Minerva | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **contrive** | past · perfect · passive |  | Minerva |  | the foundation of Minerva's house |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remove** | might | house's inhabitants |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **prove** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a neighbor |  |  |  |  | unpleasant *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=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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