--- title: A shower of snow fell upon them, and, finding the Olive full of foli… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: A shower of snow fell upon them, and, finding the Olive full of foliage, it settled upon its branches and broke them down with its weight, at once despoiling it of its beauty and killing the tree. Who acts: shower. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:16:106 # text = A shower of snow fell upon them, and, finding the Olive full of foliage, it settled upon its branches and broke them down with its weight, at once despoiling it of its beauty and killing the tree. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shower shower NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 upon upon ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 ccomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Olive olive NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 foliage foliage NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 settled settle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 upon upon ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 down down ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 at at SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 33 advmod _ _ 33 despoiling despoil VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 killing kill VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | a shower of snow | | | | | upon leaves *= leaf* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | | 2 | **find** | gerund | shower *not said here* | the Olive | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olive=Topic | | 3 | **settle** | past | shower | | | | | upon shower's branches | tree rules | | 4 | **break down** | past | a shower of snow *not said here* | leaves *= leaf* | | | | with shower's weight | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with weight=Instrument | | 5 | **despoil** | gerund | a shower of snow *not said here* | shower | | | | of shower's beauty; once *property* | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Source of beauty=Theme | | 6 | **kill** | gerund | a shower of snow *not said here* | the tree | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/107/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/)