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title: A RICH NOBLEMAN once opened the theaters without charge to the peopl… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A RICH NOBLEMAN once opened the theaters without charge to the people, and gave a public notice that he would handsomely reward any person who invented a new amusement for the occasion. Who acts: RICH NOBLEMAN, NOBLEMAN, person. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 79

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A RICH NOBLEMAN once opened the theaters without charge to the people, and gave a public notice that he would handsomely reward any person who invented a new amusement for the occasion.

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**Who acts:** RICH NOBLEMAN, NOBLEMAN, person · **What happens:** open, give, reward, invent · **To what, where:** theaters, public notice, person, new amusement

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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 (RICH NOBLEMAN, NOBLEMAN, person), 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:pg21:16:79
# text = A RICH NOBLEMAN once opened the theaters without charge to the people, and gave a public notice that he would handsomely reward any person who invented a new amusement for the occasion.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	RICH	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	NOBLEMAN	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	theaters	theater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	reward	reward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	invented	invent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	amusement	amusement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | a RICH NOBLEMAN | the theaters |  |  |  | without charge to the people; once *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location theater=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | a RICH NOBLEMAN *not said here* | a public notice |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 3 | **reward** | would | NOBLEMAN |  | any person |  |  | handsomely *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient |
| 4 | **invent** | past | any person | a new amusement |  |  |  | for the occasion | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent amusement=Result for occasion=Beneficiary |

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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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