--- title: Venus consented to her request and transformed her into a beautiful… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: Venus consented to her request and transformed her into a beautiful damsel, so that the youth saw her and loved her, and took her home as his bride. Who acts: Venus, youth. 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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 (Venus, youth), 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:pg21:16:53 # text = Venus consented to her request and transformed her into a beautiful damsel, so that the youth saw her and loved her, and took her home as his bride. 1 Venus Venus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 consented consent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 request request NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 transformed transform VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 damsel damsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 18 mark _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consent** | past | Venus | | | | | to Venus's request | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to request=Theme | | 2 | **transform** | past | Venus *not said here* | Venus | | | | into a beautiful damsel *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into damsel=Result | | 3 | **see** | past | the youth | Venus | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 4 | **love** | past | the youth *not said here* | Venus | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 5 | **take** | past | Venus *not said here* | Venus's home | | | | as youth's bride | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent home=Theme as bride=Attribute | | 6 | **request** | | Venus | | | | | | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/54/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/)