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title: Later, another neighbor purchased him and allowed his feathers to gr… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Later, another neighbor purchased him and allowed his feathers to grow again. Who acts: neighbor, feathers. 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 40

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Later, another neighbor purchased him and allowed his feathers to grow again.

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**Who acts:** neighbor, feathers · **What happens:** purchase, allow, grow · **To what, where:** man, feathers

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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 (neighbor, feathers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg21:1309`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg21:16:40
# text = Later, another neighbor purchased him and allowed his feathers to grow again.
1	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	purchased	purchase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **purchase** | past | another neighbor | man |  |  |  | late *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Theme |
| 2 | **allow** | past | another neighbor *not said here* | man's feathers |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer feather=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **grow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man's feathers *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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