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title: The Fox on her return, discovered what had happened, but was less gr… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fox on her return, discovered what had happened, but was less grieved for the death of her young than for her inability to avenge them. Who acts: Fox, young. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 79

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The Fox on her return, discovered what had happened, but was less grieved for the death of her young than for her inability to avenge them.

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**Who acts:** Fox, young · **What happens:** discover, happen, grieve, avenge, return, die · **To what, where:** branches

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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 (Fox, young), 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:pg21:14:79
# text = The Fox on her return, discovered what had happened, but was less grieved for the death of her young than for her inability to avenge them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	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	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	inability	inability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past | the Fox on Fox's return |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grieve** | past · passive | the Fox on Fox's return *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the death of Fox's young; than Fox's inability; less *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **avenge** | to-infinitive | the Fox on Fox's return *not said here* | branches *= branch* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **die** |  | Fox's young |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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