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title: A VIPER, entering the workshop of a smith, sought from the tools the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A VIPER, entering the workshop of a smith, sought from the tools the means of satisfying his hunger. Who acts: VIPER, his. 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 2

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A VIPER, entering the workshop of a smith, sought from the tools the means of satisfying his hunger.

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**Who acts:** VIPER, his · **What happens:** enter, seek, mean, satisfy, hunger · **To what, where:** workshop, VIPER, tools, hunger

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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 (VIPER, his), 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:pg21:16:2
# text = A VIPER, entering the workshop of a smith, sought from the tools the means of satisfying his hunger.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	VIPER	viper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	workshop	workshop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	nsubj	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	satisfying	satisfy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | gerund | a VIPER *not said here* | the workshop of a smith |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme workshop=Destination |
| 2 | **seek** | participle |  | a VIPER *not said here* |  | the tools |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | a VIPER |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **satisfy** | gerund | a VIPER *not said here* | his hunger |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer |
| 5 | **hunger** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunger «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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