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title: Jupiter, disturbed by the noise of their croaking, inquired the caus… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Jupiter, disturbed by the noise of their croaking, inquired the cause of their complaint. Who acts: Jupiter, croaking, Frogs. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 110

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Jupiter, disturbed by the noise of their croaking, inquired the cause of their complaint.

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**Who acts:** Jupiter, croaking, Frogs · **What happens:** disturb, inquire, noise, croak, cause, complain · **To what, where:** Jupiter, cause, complaint

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jupiter, croaking, Frogs), 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:pg21:16:110
# text = Jupiter, disturbed by the noise of their croaking, inquired the cause of their complaint.
1	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	croaking	croaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disturb** | participle |  | Jupiter *not said here* |  |  |  | by the noise of Frogs's croaking | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | Jupiter | the cause of Frogs's complaint |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cause=Recipient |
| 3 | **noise** |  | Frogs's croaking |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **croak** |  | Frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  |  | nom croaking «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **cause** |  |  | Frogs's complaint |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **complain** |  | Frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  |  | nom complaint «state intransitive»: 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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