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title: The Mule carrying the treasure walked with head erect, as if conscio… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mule carrying the treasure walked with head erect, as if conscious of the value of his burden, and tossed up and down the clear-toned bells fastened to his neck. Who acts: Mule, One. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 124

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The Mule carrying the treasure walked with head erect, as if conscious of the value of his burden, and tossed up and down the clear-toned bells fastened to his neck.

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**Who acts:** Mule, One · **What happens:** carry, walk, toss up, tone, fasten, value · **To what, where:** treasure, burden

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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 (Mule, 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:pg21:15:124
# text = The Mule carrying the treasure walked with head erect, as if conscious of the value of his burden, and tossed up and down the clear-toned bells fastened to his neck.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	erect	erect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	conscious	conscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	toned	tone	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
31	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **carry** | gerund | the Mule *not said here* | the treasure |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the Mule |  |  |  |  | with head | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **toss up** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tone** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **fasten** | past |  |  |  |  |  | down the toned bells; to One's neck | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to neck=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **value** |  |  | One's burden |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **burden** |  | One |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=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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