--- title: A Fox, seeing this, exclaimed, “Do not cultivate the favour of this… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: A Fox, seeing this, exclaimed, “Do not cultivate the favour of this man, but of your former owner, lest he should again hunt for you and deprive you a second time of your wings.” Who acts: Fox. 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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 (Fox), 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:pg21:16:42 # text = A Fox, seeing this, exclaimed, “Do not cultivate the favour of this man, but of your former owner, lest he should again hunt for you and deprive you a second time of your wings.” 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 cultivate cultivate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 again again ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 deprive deprive VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 37 amod _ _ 37 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | a Fox *not said here* | this | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | a Fox | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **cultivate** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | the favour of this man | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Product | | 4 | **hunt** *in a quote* | should | Fox | | | | again | for you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for you=Theme | | 5 | **deprive** *in a quote* | infinitive | Fox *not said here* | you | | | time | | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Source | | 6 | **favour** *in a quote* | | | this man | | | | | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/43/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/)