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title: Just at that moment a Gnat settled on the head of the Elephant, and… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Just at that moment a Gnat settled on the head of the Elephant, and he replied, “Do you see that little buzzing insect? Who acts: moment Gnat, you, that. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 112

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Just at that moment a Gnat settled on the head of the Elephant, and he replied, “Do you see that little buzzing insect?

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**Who acts:** moment Gnat, you, that · **What happens:** settle, reply, see, insect · **To what, where:** moment Gnat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment Gnat, you, that), 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:pg21:15:112
# text = Just at that moment a Gnat settled on the head of the Elephant, and he replied, “Do you see that little buzzing insect?
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Gnat	gnat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
7	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | participle |  | a moment Gnat *not said here* |  |  |  | on the head of the Elephant | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on head=Topic |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | a moment Gnat |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **insect** *in a quote* |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | 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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